Consulting Services for Registered General Building Contractors

PNRC 38

• a) Experience in building industry should be substantiated by project details and endorsed by the employers concerned or the AP/RSE/Registered Contractors (RC)/government architects, engineers or surveyors of the projects. If the person was self-employed, other documentary justification e.g. specified forms under the BO or contract documents may also be acceptable.
• (b) Project experience should be submitted in BD standard form and should be endorsed by the AP/RSE/RC/government architects,  engineers or surveyors of the projects.  For the purpose of calculating the period of experience under alternative requirements 1 to 3, aggregation of the durations of experience under different projects of the same period is not permitted.
• (c) Experience in managing a contractor company should be substantiated by a proof of directorship or ownership of the contractor company, or a proof of holding a top management position in the contractor company with overall management responsibilities in technical and financial matters and staff resources. The claimed experience should also be substantiated with project details (e.g. specified forms under the BO or contract documents) to demonstrate that the company was an active contractor when the experience was obtained.
• (d) Alternative requirements 4 and 5 are only applicable to those applicants who had applied for registration under these alternative requirements on or before 6 November 2000.  These applicants may continue to apply under alternative requirements 4 and 5.
• (e) The higher certificate, diploma or university degree should be in the field of construction technology such as architecture, building studies, building surveying, civil engineering and structural engineering. Academic qualifications in other fields of studies will be assessed individually by the CRC according to the relevance of the curriculum in relation to the work of an RGBC.  Only courses with adequate coverage and appropriate proportion of subjects relevant to construction technology (e.g. construction technology, building design, structures, temporary works, building and land surveying, building materials, maintenance technology, building services, construction management, etc.) and construction industry practice (e.g. construction laws, contract management, quantity surveying, construction economics, building development, etc.) will be considered.  General guidelines on acceptance of academic qualifications for the purpose of contractors registration are detailed at Appendix H.