Having a trade sub contractors license gives tradies and customers protection if things go wrong. The SA Government has recently started promoting ways consumers can verify that their tradies are licensed, and has set up a website to ‘dob in a tradie’ So...
Bob Day’s founding Homestead Homes business sold Queensland’s Metro Property Development has bought the founding business of Bob Day’s collapsed building empire by Simon Evans The first of the assets from the collapsed Bob Day home building empire,...
Our course guide for 2017 can be downloaded by clicking on the following link: 2017 course guide . Courses offered included our popular Cert II in Construction CPC20112 Pre-apprenticeship course, dates for the sub-contractors license course, and information on our...
A proposal to make it unlawful for a head contractor to attempt to bully or intimidate a subcontractor out of using the Security of Payment Act has been put forward in South Australia under a review of security of payment legislation in that state being conducted by...
FCTA – Building Careers runs a series of short courses for existing tradespeople to increase their skills. Lots of the courses have cross over skills, bricklayers usually have the hand skills to pick up acrylic rendering quickly. Tilers who have only worked on...
The collapse of Bob Day’s home building firms highlights the urgent need to better protect subcontractors in the construction industry, according to the Senator’s parliamentary colleague Nick Xenophon. Day, who was re-elected to the Senate to represent the Family...
