Building control in Australia; experiences with private sector involvement

Facing issues with regulatory enforcement through municipal agencies, governments in Australia have reformed the enforcement of public building regulations. As a result, the private sector has been introduced in building regulatory enforcement regimes with differences amongst jurisdictions. In this paper account is given of the present day situation in four Australian states. This by introducing both the formal structure of, and experiences with the building regulatory enforcement regimes in the states analysed. Discussion of the formal set-up is based on secondary accounts and discussion of the experiences is based upon a series of interviews with over 60 key-persons in the jurisdictions mentioned