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The Building Centre Network works in conjunction with quality Service Providers, offers a range of services or assistance to help builders and tradesmen with their compliance, building licence, CPD course requirements and day-to-day needs. Additionally builders and tradesmen can help their clients, by directing them The Building Centre Network for assistance, thus saving time and inconvenience.
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Building or renovating is a big decision and an important investment. There is a lot to plan and think about. You want to buy or build with confidence, enjoy the experience and know that you have made the best decision for you and your family.
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Obtaining finance to purchase, build, extend or renovate a home can be difficult and is a maze to satisfy the legal requirement of financial institutions. The same applies to obtaining finance to invest in property or to obtain funds for your business. The Building Centre Network is currently seeking to provide this service and your feedback is important to us as we endeavour to fulfil our customers needs.
Below is a list of options that finance can be used for:
- Finance To Buy
- Finance To Build
- Finance To Extend or Renovate
- Finance For Owner Builders
- Finance To Invest
- Finance For Business
- Finance For Small Projects
- Finance To Refinance
This section is Building Centre Network's invaluable range of online Directories and Resources. Whether you are planning to, or have started to, renovate, build an entire new home or extension, you will find our range of Directories very helpful to find answers, or people to contact, or places visit or email, or websites to read. Handy too if you need to replace or restore or to repair storm damage.
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Choose from the following specific resources :
- Showrooms Directory : Over 5,000 Showroom Profiles of building products and services retail outlets around Australia.
- Organisations Index : building industry organisations, associations and government departments.
- Builders Directory : Licenced professional home builders who have 'listed' their services.
- Trade Services Directory : Licensed, where required, specialist tradesmen who have 'listed' their services.
- Specialist Services Directory : Licensed, where required, specialist services who have 'listed' their services.
- Specialised Builders Directory : Licensed, where required, specialist builders who have 'listed' their services.
Our range of Smart Products are innovative, not widely known and effective quality products. Their use or benefits include energy or water savings, improved convenience, added lifestyle for you in your home, commercial or investment properties. They can be purchased online or by the PDF Order Forms sent to us by Australia Post, fax or email. Our selective product range includes: Visit Our Online Store
Ventilation Roof Tiles & Units
Draught and Vermin Stopper Fan
Vent-Out Adaptor Solution
'2 in 1' Kitchen Mixer Tap
Straight Spout Sink Mixer Tap
Curved Classic Sink Mixer Tap
DIY Wise Shower Rose
Solar Charging Mobile Devices
Perspective Drawing Boards
Tangle Free Extension Reel
35mm Photo Multi Scanner
For Bulk or International Orders
Some of our Smart Products can also be shipped internationally. We also take bulk orders of our products.
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It is important to organise your building insurance protection before construction commences, otherwise it can be harder to arrange and will be higher premium. Click below to read about Builder Insurances, Tradesmen Insurances and Owner Builder Insurances.
This range of essential builder insurances will help protect you (income protection), your business, valuable assets, plant, equipment, commercial vehicles, business, public liabilities and compliances.
- Machinery & Plant;
- Contract Works;
- Office and Business
This range of essential trade insurances will help protect you (income protection), your business, valuable assets, plant, equipment, commercial vehicles, business, public liabilities and compliances.
- Liability + Accident + Sickness + Tools;
- Accident + Sickness only;
- Machinery + Plant;
- Commercial Motor Vehicle
Owner builder insurances will help protect you, friends or family helping (unpaid workers), public liability, building materials delivered to site and the growing value of works completed.
- OB Construction and Public Liability;
- OB Volunteer (unpaid) Workers Income Protection;
Not all insurance cover is the same.Certainly do not compare and decide on premiums alone. Draw up a table or spreadsheet of quotes to be sure you understand the differences:
- the different options and their value of cover
- inclusions and their value e.g. are tools or building materials covered for loss?
- exclusions. Are they important to you?
- is there a finite period in which construction needs to be completed?
- is there an option to extend your insurance cover if the building in not completed within the period of the Policy ? If so, for how long?
It is also important to consider the company and underwriter from which you will receive your insurance policy. After all, you need to have the confidence to know that your insurer is competent and experienced enough to handle your claim quickly, efficiently fairly and co-operatively.
The Building Centre Network's Insurance Service Provider will promptly provide you with competitive quotes from solid insurance companies who have many years of experience, and who offer high quality insurance policies with generous inclusions.
Our range of creatAspace courses, conducted by our Network of Course Providers, will help give you the knowledge and confidence to undertake your desire project and hopefully minimise mistakes. We also include CPD courses for professional development requirements.
creatAspace is about creating or improving spaces large or small. Here is a brief overview of range of important courses and workshops :-
- Owner Building in ACT,QLD, NSW, SA, VIC, WA and soon TAS. It is not compulsory to a course in South Australia or Victoria, however gain the benefits of knowledge.
- Courses for Builders and Tradesmen, including CPD Courses to retain licences.
- Occupational, Health and Safety (OHS) courses for builders, tradesmen and owner builders.
- How to invest in property, to create wealth.
- How to renovate homes, to make a profit.
- Home Owners to build, improve or maintain their homes
- Hobbies or practical 'how to' skills and techniques including DIY.
People who enrol in these Australia wide courses are home owners, aspiring owner builders, property investors (existing or aspiring), and industry practitioners such as architects, building designers, interior designers, builders and tradesmen. You can enrol online, by PDF Form sent by email, fax of by Australia Post.
To read course details, select the appropriate Section :
- Owner Builder Courses : ACT, QLD, NSW, SA, VIC, WA & TAS
- Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Courses, NSW and QLD
- Builders' Courses, including CPD
- Tradesmen Courses, to qualify, improve or acquire skills
- Courses to help Builders improve their business skills and methods (CPD)
- Home building, improvements or maintenance for home owners
- Selling Your Own Home Course
- Investing in Property and Renovating as a business Courses
- How to enrol in a Course
- Cancellation and Transfers
Advantages and disadvantages of different learning formats:
Workshop or Classroom: Attending an interactive and 'face to face' teaching environment is the best way to maximise your learning, gaining knowledge, understanding and insights. You look, listen and learn. You can ask questions, learn from questions asked by others and take away hard copy Manuals in which you may have made personal notes. It will require more of your time and course fees are higher.
Hard Copy Correspondence Courses: As you will receive 'hard copy' source materials to self study and to use as reference materials, due to the portability of the course materials, you can study when and were you please. For example when travelling, commuting or on holidays. These printed materials can also be close at hand to reference or to reminder you when you commence your project. By buying the hard copy version, it is usually much cheaper than printing on your computer's printer the course materials supplied as PDFs or on-line.
On-line or PDFs Correspondence Courses: They are usually quicker to complete and cheaper. They represent solitude learning so by definition on completion, you will probably have learnt, retained and understood less. To study the course, you are tied to a computer, its access, location and when it is able be turned on. Additionally on completing the course, you do not have important reference materials close at hand for quick use when you start.
creatAspace courses concentrate on large spaces such as a property development, building a home, extending or renovating a home, or renovating small spaces such as a bathroom or kitchen.
creatAspace showcases comprehensive, current and dynamic training programs, carefully researched, designed, developed and delivered by various reputable training providers nationwide. By enrolling in a course, you will be equipped with sound knowledge and practical skills needed to achieve your goals.
Cancellation Fee: Each provider establishes their own policy. On receiving written advice of a cancellation, if we have arranged a booking and received payment, a separate BCN Adminstration and Merchant Fee of $33 will be deducted from the payment received and what the Course Provider may allow, in the calculation of the amount to be refunded.
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