NSW law requires that all builders perform at least 12 CPD (Continuing Professional Development) points worth of activity every single year in order to keep their business licence valid. Why is this? Because the government wants to make sure that those who work in the building industry are doing what’s required to keep themselves up-to-date [...]
The federal government’s Skills for All Australians has been welcomed by the building industry. The new plan involves an extra .75 billion of funding to the National Partnership Agreement on Skills Reform, bringing the total funding to billion over the next five years. As noted by Wilhelm Harnisch, the CEO of Master Builders Australia, Australia [...]
Builders get into the building business for several reasons. And if you’re like thousands of builders in New South Wales, you get a great deal of personal satisfaction from creating something tangible out of a pile of building materials. There’s a satisfaction that comes from getting up, going to the job site, getting things organized, [...]
The New South Wales Office of Fair Trading requires that all builders and pool builders in New South Wales earn 12 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points a year. It’s part of continuing professional development for builders. If you don’t get these points, you could have your builders licence revoked – meaning you could be trading [...]
Many builders and pool builders are understandably nervous about their builders CPD points. It’s a requirement and if a builder fails to secure 12 building CPD points a year, the NSW Office of Fair Trading can revoke a builder’s license—meaning the builder is trading illegally. Since making changes to the CPD points for builders program [...]