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 homebuilding technical standards.

In order to achieve this, NHBRC has prioritised the emerging homebuilders training as a programme to assist the segment of the market that needs support and development.

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Who is an emerging homebuilder?

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. 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 three modules which leads to two qualifications, Construction Contractor Qualification and Construction Mason Bricklaying Qualification.

Home builders will be trained towards the following modules:

• Construction Management
• Basic Financial Management
• Bricklaying

Click here to see the outline of the module.

How do I enrol for training?

The homebuilder must meet the criteria for selection, which is;

• Be registered with NHBRC
• Be and HDI or PDI homebuilder
• Employ between 1 to 5 employees

If you meet these criteria, you can either fax or email the following details: or complete the expression of interest form.

• Name of the Company
• NHBRC registration number,
• Contact person,
• Postal Address,
• Telephone and Fax numbers

The fax number is; 086 630 8921
Email: thatom@nhbrc.org.za with the subject line Training for emerging homebuilders.

Once the NHBRC receives your expression of interest, 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 your schedule. 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 will enable you to build on your unit standards, which form building blocks of the qualification.

Will the NHBRC find me work?

No. The mandate of the NHBRC is to assist homebuilders through training and inspection to achieve satisfactory technical standards of homebuilding.

Through this training you will be in a better position to market your services and business and be able to run it professionally.

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 emerging homebuilders who are registered with the NHBRC to participate in the free training for emerging homebuilders, currently taking place.

The following unit standard based modules, leading to construction contractor qualification and construction mason bricklaying qualification will be presented.

Topic	Modules	NFQ Level	Duration
Construction Management	Set up and manage a construction business	2	3 days
	Tender for construction contracts	2	5 days
	Apply quality principles	2	2 days
Bricklaying	Set out, excavate, cast concrete, strip foundation and build foundation walling	3	5 days
	Build masonry superstructure using solid units	3	5 days
	Build masonry superstructure using hollow units	3	5 days
Basic Financial Management	Budget and cash flows	2	2 days
	Methods to raise sureties and capital loans	2
	Structure of joint ventures and joint venture partnership	2
	Preparation of claims	2

If you meet the above criterion and would like to know more about training opportunities, please contact:

Mr Thato Mongalo
Tel: (011) 317 0208/0206
Fax: 086 630 8921
Email: thatom@nhbrc.org.za

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