Durban – October 14, 2015 â Newly appointed members of the National Home Builder Registrations Council (NHBRC) recently assessed building standards at two of Durban’s largest building projects Cornubia and Clermont. As part of the Council Members oversight mandate, the purpose of the inspection by these senior officials was to highlight the importance of regulation […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) would like to advise all contractors to ignore electronic communications advising them of changes to the council’s banking details, says NHBRC CEO Mongezi Mnyani. Anyone receiving information to the contrary is urged to contact NHBRC’s fraud hotline on 0800 203 698. “The communication advising contractors of changes to […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) Women Empowerment Programme scooped an award for the Most Innovative Training Programme at the 3rd annual Women in Construction Awards. We are very honoured by this award, says NHBRC chief executive officer Mongezi Mnyani. Recognition by the industry tells us that we are being effective in our efforts […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) welcomes the nomination of its Women Empowerment Programme (WEP) as one of the three finalists for the Most Innovative Women Training Programme, at this yearââ¬â¢s Women in Construction Awards. The awards hosted as part of the African Construction/Totally Concrete Expo will take place on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 […]
The Minister of Human Settlements, Lindiwe Sisulu, MP, has placed the Chairperson of the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC), Advocate Brenda Madumise on leave of absence with immediate effect following allegations that appeared in the media in November 2014. The Minister has appointed Mr Abbey Chikane as Caretaker Chairperson until the matter is concluded. […]
Women are severely underrepresented in the construction industry in South Africa, says Adv. Brenda Madumise, Chairperson of the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC). Madumise says the latest reports from Statistic South Africa (Stats SA) indicate that women make up a small percentage of the total workforce in the construction industry. According to Stats SAs […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) is participating at the National Human Settlements Indaba and Exhibition to be held on 16 to 17 October 2014 at the Sandton Convention Centre. At the event, the NHBRC will showcase some of the approved Innovative Building Technology systems and what it does to promote innovation in the […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) is pleased to announce its second intake for the Women Empowerment Programme (WEP) aimed at boosting leadership and business skills of women entrepreneurs in the construction industry. This follows on from the success of the pilot programme initiated in 2013 that was completed by 20 women who are […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) has sent a structural engineer and an inspector to the site of the collapsed house in Meyersdal today to properly investigate the project. The NHBRC would like to satisfy itself as to the cause of the disaster and as to whether it falls within the ambit of the […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) announced today that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the University of Cape Town (UCT) to exchange knowledge and expertise on geotechnical engineering, the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behaviour of earth materials. The objective of this MOU is to facilitate […]