BUILD 2025: Mandatory inspections and certifications

Mandatory inspections and certifications

Throughout your build, your certifier must complete several compulsory notifications and inspections to ensure the work is carried out to the required standards and legal requirements.

These records must be lodged with Access Canberra before you can apply for a Certificate of Occupancy, allowing you to move in to your new home.

The existing mandatory stage inspections undertaken by a certifier are:

• Completion of excavation, formwork and steel reinforcing for the footings before concrete for the footings is poured

• Completion of the structural framework

• Completion of placement of formwork, and placement of steel reinforcing for any reinforced concrete member before any concrete for the member is poured

• Completion of the building work.

An extra inspection will be made during construction for two storey homes before the second storey slab is poured.

There are also mandatory inspections that will be conducted by the ACT Government for electrical and plumbing work, which your builder, plumber or electrician will organise.

Your builder and certifier should keep you updated about when the mandatory stage inspections are going to take place. There is no requirement for you to personally attend these inspections. Your certifier will let you know if there are any issues.

BANK OR LENDER SITE INSPECTIONS FOR PROGRESS PAYMENTS

If your build is financed through a bank or other lending institution, they may want to send a representative out to site to inspect the work completed each time a progress payment is due. Your bank will advise you of their progress stage inspection procedures.