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Recognition as a Professional Engineering Body - New South Wales

Description

You will need recognition as a Professional Engineering Body if your organisation intends to operate a scheme to recognise or register individual Professional Engineers in any of the six classes of engineers:

  • Civil
  • Electrical
  • Fire Safety
  • Geotechnical
  • Mechanical
  • Structural.

Registered or recognised professional engineers under the scheme can then benefit from a fast tracked registration process and their details will be listed on the Public Register for Design and Building Practitioners.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

A professional body of engineers must meet the following requirements before it is able to register or recognise professional engineers:

  • have a recognition or registration scheme
  • have the capacity and facilities to conduct assessments of qualifications and competencies
  • have the capacity to undertake independent and timely assessments.

A recognition or registration scheme must:

  • be open to members and non-members of the engineering body
  • adequately provide for the assessment of qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills and competencies of professional engineers in an area of engineering
  • include processes for assessment, establishing and auditing continuing professional development (CPD) and insurance requirements
  • monitor its recognised or registered engineers to ensure compliance with the requirements of their scheme, including resolving complaints, investigating misconduct, and undertaking dispute resolution and disciplinary action
  • be made available on a public website for openness and transparency and include clear information on the scheme, including the application process, and the processes for monitoring and investigating engineers, and complaint resolution and dispute resolution
  • must include a searchable register of current or former registered or recognised persons under the scheme, including any disciplinary action taken with persons on the register. The register must be published.

Ongoing eligibility requirements

Recognised engineering bodies are required to report annually to the Secretary on the operation of the scheme.

Duration

1, 3 or 5 years

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Amount Description
Apply Application All $9004.00

Fees for 2026-27

Other resources

Task Business Structure Resources
Apply All Professional Engineering Body Recognition Guideline - PDF (Opens in new window)

Act(s) name

Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 New South Wales

Regulation(s) name

Design and Building Practitioners Regulation 2021 New South Wales

Administering agency

Building Commission NSW

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.