Today the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) handed over a home built using innovative building technologies (IBTs) to Mr. Harry Khuduge who is one of the oldest residents of Etwatwa. A Geoplast foundation system and a Mi Panel 2 Building System (MIBT) were used to build the 61 m² house which boasts 3 bedrooms, […]
Today, the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) handed over the keys of three homes to overjoyed new home-owners in Thabong, Welkom. Last year, instead of funding a year-end function for its members of Council, the NHBRC decided to contribute to the building of three innovative building technology homes. Each home boasts three bedrooms, a […]
As part of its CSI initiative, the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) has partnered with Kavango Block Brick and Geoplast to build a user friendly house for Agnes Dyidi in Nyanga East, Western Cape. Dyidi who is 73 years old, lives with her five year old grandchild and has been bedridden in her dilapidated […]
Johannesburg, 19 February 2014 – The National Home Builders Registration Council(NHBRC) has imposed a penalty of R1, 4 million on one of its registered home builders, Woodglaze Trading (Pty) Ltd, trading as Ladybrick, after a Disciplinary Committee found it guilty of 96 counts of contravention of section 14(1) of the Housing Consumers Protection Measures Act, […]
The NHBRC is pleased to announce that its Head Office and Gauteng Provincial Customer Care centre in Woodmead will be moving to one central location as of March 24th, 2014. While the NHBRC Management is happy with its current office space, the move to one central location will save costs and enable the organisation to […]
Johannesburg 27 November 2013 The National Home Builders Registration Council(NHBRC) sent an independent team of qualified professionals to KZN on Tuesday 26 November 2013 to properly investigate all housing projects that are currently under construction by Woodglaze Trading (Pty) Ltd and Gralio Precast (Pty) Ltd. This is as a result of recent media reports in […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council is suspending the practice of accepting enrolment fees through the PA003. In terms of Rule 5(1)b of the National Home Builders Registration Council Rules in GNR 1408 of 1 December 1999 (âRegulation 1408â), the NHBRC is required to enter into agreements with financial institutions and/or mortgage lenders for the […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) today concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with the Council for Geoscience (CGS), covering the manner in which the two institutions will interact with each other with regards to geotechnical investigations conducted around the country. This cooperation will assist the NHBRC in its objective of protecting housing consumers from […]
The City Press published an article (Sunday, 29th September 2013) in which it claims, in regard to the contract for the implementation of a new ERP system, that the NHBRC spent large sums of money for services that have not been rendered and that key staff have left as a direct result of their frustration […]
The National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) would like to warn the public against a company known to the NHBRC as i-Homes Group, an entity conducting its business from various offices in KZN. i-Homes Group is advertising in the media that it is registered with the NHBRC. However, NHBRC records show that i-Homes is not […]