How do you apply for builder registration through the BPC Portal?

Start your builder registration application by logging in to BPC and opening Registration and Licensing. Choose your registration type, complete each section and arrange the technical referee reports required before submission. BPC’s Portal steps explain that sequence.

The Portal is where you lodge, not where you decide which class your experience supports. So if you’re opening a draft today, first check builder registration in Victoria and the work you want to carry out, manage or arrange.

Can you apply for your registration category online?

BPC’s application guide lists domestic and commercial builders, demolishers, building inspectors and building surveyors for the online route. It says online registration is not yet available for building designers, temporary-structure erectors or supervisors, project managers and quantity surveyors. Check your category before opening a form saved from an older application.

If domestic building is your work, compare DB-U and DB-L before selecting a registration type. Opening an account doesn’t mean you qualify for the class.

What should you have ready before opening the Portal?

Start with records you can explain and support. BPC checks qualifications and experience, including the responsibilities relevant to your class. Put together:

• Your intended registration class and qualifications already held.
• Projects showing your own paid work, dates, responsibilities and supervision.
• Appropriately registered referees who directly supervised the work you describe.
• Your identity and contact details, fit-and-proper declarations and checks, and relevant insurance information.

This is a preparation list, not a universal upload checklist. Follow your current application form for the exact documents. A project record should separate your contribution from work done by other people, including stages done before you joined or after you left.

Before asking someone to report on a whole project, check which part they actually supervised. Check your next step.

How do you create an account or use Service Victoria?

Use the login link in BPC’s official application guide. Its first stage explains signing in with Service Victoria or creating an account and confirming your contact details. Use details consistent with records BPC already holds so your account can be matched.

Keep your login and codes to yourself. We’ll never ask for them.

Where do you start a new registration application?

BPC’s second published stage is to open Registration and Licensing, select Apply for a new registration or licence, choose your registration type and select Start New Application. Read the selected category before proceeding: builder registration and other Portal services are not the same application. Follow the published steps.

How do you complete and save each section?

In the third stage, work through each application section. BPC says draft work saves automatically; the application summary shows completed sections with green ticks. You can reopen a draft through Registration and Licensing.

Green ticks show you’ve completed the form sections. For a domestic builder application, BPC must also receive your referees’ reports before you can submit. Check your project details, dates and responsibilities before you lodge.

Why do referee reports matter before you submit?

The technical referee guide for applicants sets out a separate nomination process:

1. Open Registration and Licensing, then Technical References.
2. Select + Add Technical Referee and search by name or accreditation number.
3. Confirm the correct practitioner and select the projects they supervised.
4. Add further referees where needed. The guide provides manual entry if a referee cannot be found.
5. Submit the nominations so BPC can email the referees directly.

Submitting those nominations does not submit your registration application. Your referee completes their own report. BPC confirms when reports arrive and requires completed reports before payment and final submission. For domestic work, the referee needs the same or a higher domestic class and must have directly supervised the work. Read who can provide technical referee reports before you nominate someone.

What happens after you lodge your application?

BPC reviews your qualifications and experience and may request further information or assessment. It gives the application decision in writing. Processing depends on your application and the information supplied; how long a mate waited tells you nothing about yours.

If BPC requests assessment, read the assessment format and result notifications. An assessment pass and a final registration decision are different stages.

Where should you check current fees and assessment instructions?

Use our 2026–27 Victorian registration fees guide to pick the right applicant type and transaction before paying. The BPC fee isn’t the only cost. Allow for checks and reference access too.

For assessment, follow your own BPC notification and the permitted reference guidance. If BPC asks you to sit the assessment, BRIQ, our sister study app for Victorian builders, has a DB-U study guide for 2026.

How can BLS help before you lodge?

BLS provides application support, walking you through your class, projects, referees and what to lodge. For domestic work, start with domestic builder registration support. BPC assesses every application and makes the decision.

Rather talk it through? Call us on 0468 008 598.