Licensed building practitioner

Licensed building practitioners (LBPs) are building professionals who’ve been assessed as competent to do design or construction work that’s structural or affects the weathertightness of a building (called ‘restricted building work’).

LBPs are:

• designers
• carpenters
• brick and blocklayers
• roofers
• external plasterer
• site and foundations specialists.

Registered architects and chartered professional engineers aren’t LBPs, but they’re licensed to supervise and undertake restricted building work.

• Get more information about licensed building practitioners
• Find out if a tradesperson is an LBP.