Portrait photograph of Helen Kowal
Helen Kowal
Partner

Helen Kow­al Part­ner, is pre­sent­ing on the top­ic of: Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Bill 2019 — New Duties & Penal­ties for Archi­tects at the Legal­wise Law for Archi­tects Sem­i­nar on 18 June 2020

A link to the full pro­gram of events can be found here.

The pro­gram has been devel­oped for archi­tects specif­i­cal­ly around the new Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020 (which came into effect last Thurs­day 11 June 2020).

Helen’s pre­sen­ta­tion will cov­er the fol­low­ing areas:

  • How did the Draft Bill come about?
  • What does it mean for design­ers and build­ing practitioners?
  • What is a ​‘reg­u­lat­ed design’?
  • Reg­is­tra­tion and licens­ing require­ments for prac­ti­tion­ers that you need to know about
  • Under­stand the penalties
  • Con­sid­er the duty of care pro­vi­sions with­in the Bill

A spe­cial 30% off pro­mo­tion­al code for the pro­gram is avail­able, which you can share with your col­leagues, net­works and any indus­try asso­ci­a­tions you are a mem­ber of who may be interested.

Pro­mo­tion­al Code: SPK30

This offer is valid until the date of your presentation. 

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Publications

Changes to the Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act 1999

Res­i­den­tial home build­ing work car­ried out by a home builder for an own­er occu­pi­er home­own­er has (until very recent­ly as not­ed…

Helen Kowal’s arti­cle pub­lished in Source​able​.net | Final­ly, Bet­ter Build­ing Prac­tices are Being Enforced

Back in 2019, frus­trat­ed in my pro­fes­sion as to how many build­ing defects appear in mul­ti-storey res­i­den­tial build­ings short­ly after…

Address­ing Build­ing Defects in Stra­ta Schemes

Leg­isla­tive oblig­a­tions and func­tions for a stra­ta scheme can be over­whelm­ing in the first few years and it may take time…

In the News

NSW Con­struc­tion Indus­try Shut Down – Fur­ther Clar­i­fi­ca­tions | 6 August 2021

In brief:cer­tain works can recom­mence on con­struc­tion sites which are deemed both unoc­cu­pied and occu­pied sites out­side of ​‘affect­ed areas’.* While…

Con­struc­tion Shut Down Update – Recom­mis­sion­ing or Com­mence­ment works allowed on cer­tain Con­struc­tion Sites as of 29 July 2021

On 28 July 2021, the Min­is­ter passed amend­ments to clause 24AB intro­duced on 18 July 2021 under the Pub­lic Health…

UniLodge Aus­tralia Pty Ltd & Anor v the Own­ers Stra­ta plan 54026 [2020] NSW­CATCD | Costs decision

In a pre­vi­ous new arti­cle (here), Helen Kow­al – Part­ner and Sean Green­wood – Senior Asso­ciate, recent­ly act­ed for a lot owner/​building…

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