The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) is established in terms of the Housing Consumer Protection Measures Act, 95 of 1998. The NHBRC was established to protect the interest of consumers and regulate the home building industry.

The NHBRC has a mandate through the Act to assist homebuilders through training and inspections, to achieve and maintain satisfactory home building technical standards.

In order to achieve this, NHBRC offers home builder's training programme to assist in the development of labour force.

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Who is an emerging homebuilder?

A registered home builder is an NHBRC member with a valid membership.
An emerging home builder is an NHBRC registered home builder with the following characteristics:

• A Historically Disadvantaged Individual (HDI),
• Employs between 1 to 50 employees, and
• Has a turnover of less than R6 million per annum.

The above will also be used as criteria when enrolling for training.

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What training is offered by the NHBRC?

The NHBRC is currently offering eight modules which lead to qualifications in the following - Construction Contractor Qualification and/or Construction Mason Bricklaying Qualification.

Home builders will be trained towards the following modules:

• Construction Management
• Basic Financial Management
• Bricklaying
• Painting
• Plastering
• Plumbing
• Project Management
• Roofing

Click here to see the outline of the module.

How do I register for these programmes?

All NHBRC registered home builders, with valid membership qualify for the above programmes. An emerging home builder must meet the criteria for selection, which is;

• Be registered with NHBRC
• Is a HDI or PDI home builder
• Employ between 1 to 5 employees

If you meet these criteria, click here for the application form

To email or fax to the central office use below information:

• The fax number is; 0865209885 / 0865204991 / 0866378026
• Email: training@nhbrc.org.za with the subject line Training for emerging homebuilders.

Once the NHBRC receives your application, you will be recorded on the training database, and this database gets forwarded to the training provider.

The training provider will contact you with available dates for training and schedule you for training.

How will this training affect my schedule?

Training is designed and scheduled in a manner that will not affect production. The NHBRC recognises that learners cannot be taken away from their workplaces for a long duration of time.

Training is therefore broken down into smaller manageable units of learning, which will cause little interference with your projects

What do I get at the end of the training?

Learners are awarded with a certificate of competence. Their achievement will also be recorded on the National Learner Record Database (NLRD) where every qualification or unit standard-linked training achievement of learners gets recorded.

This enables the learner to work on unit standards which builds towards a qualification.

Will the NHBRC find me work?

No. The mandate of the NHBRC is to assist home builders through training and inspection to achieve satisfactory technical standards of home building.

Therefore the responsibility will be on the learner to use the skills that they have acquired to procure and sustain their businesses

Topics and courses offered by the emerging home builders training

The NHBRC is inviting all home builders who are registered with the NHBRC to participate in these training programmes, currently taking place.

 

	Training Intervention	Course   Duration	NQF Level
1	Construction Project Management             * Planning a construction project, * Implementation costing on a construction site, * Coordinating projects activities, * Reporting progress onsite	5 days	3
2	Finance for Non-Financial Managers               * Basic Financial Mgt and Accounting Records, * Budgets and Cash flows, *Methods to raise sureties and capital loans, *Structure of Joint Venture partnerships, *Preparation of Claim	3 days	3
3	Construction Management:                          * Tender for construction projects, *Apply quality principles,     * Set-up & Manage a Contracting Business,* Implement constriction site management principles.	12 days	3
4	Construction Bricklaying:                                            * Set-out, excavate, cast concrete strips foundations and build foundation, * Building masonry superstructure using solid units, * Build masonry superstructure using hollow units.	19 days	3
5	Construction Plastering:                                                     * Prepare for plastering *Plaster Walls & Screeds, * Apply plaster to surface.	11 days	3
6	Construction Roofing:                                                     * Erect/Clad domestic roof trusses, *Fabricate, erect and strip steel, timber formwork for straight walls, columns, and bases,    * Setout and prepare construction carpentry work.	27 days	3
7	Construction Painting:                                                 * Establish and prepare work area, *Calculate construction quantities to develop a work plan, *Prepare  and prime  new surfaces, * Paint surfaces	20 days	3
8	Construction Plumbing:                                                   * Plan and prepare to perform plumbing works, * Install and maintain drainage systems, *Install and maintain water supply systems	14 days	3