Current and future reform programs will build on the achievements delivered to date to improve the ACT's building regulatory system. Current priorities are:

  • Extending occupational licensing to select building trades including waterproofing, painting and decorating, brick and block layering, carpentry, plastering, tiling, concreting and glazing.
  • Establishing an expert team of publicly funded building certifiers in the ACT Public Service.
  • Streamlining building and planning processes through the ACT Construction Productivity Agenda.
  • A detailed review of the ACT’s security of payment laws to inform improvements aimed at making the building industry fairer and strengthening payment protections.
  • Implementation and monitoring of the developer licensing and regulation scheme.
  • Implementation and monitoring of the professional engineer’s registration scheme.
  • Implementation and monitoring of home swimming pool safety reforms.
  • Progress actions contained in the ACT Sustainable Buildings Pathway to improve building performance and address embodied carbon.

Future reforms include:

  • Continued work to lift standards and practices across the building and construction sector.
  • Improved regulation of building practitioners in response to the National Building Confidence Report.
  • Maintaining the currency of the ACT's building regulatory system through regular updates.
  • Progressing reforms that align with nationally consistent prefabricated and modular construction definitions and ensure regulatory neutrality between modern and traditional construction methods.