Course Overview

Owner Builder Courses and Assistance for over 30 years

Give your self the greatest opportunity save thousands of dollars, building or renovating your home.

Learn from Experts

Learn how we have helped literally thousands of owner builders to save real money and successfully complete their owner builder project.

Builder Secrets

Discover the secrets the builders use to make their profit and potentially put that money in your pocket.

Complete Knowledge

Gain the knowledge to complete your project on time and on budget and learn how to satisfy the legal requirements and obligations that come with being an owner builder.

Discover

How to manage trades

Source and purchase materials at the right price

Comply with relevant legislation including workplace health and safety fundamentals

Maintain accurate project records and documentation

Build and maintain a critical path schedule

Deal with contracts, insurances and permits

Our courses are nationally accredited or approved by the relevant governing body (state by state). Successfully completing the course will lead to you receiving a Statement of Attainment or a Certificate of Completion which satisfies the local authority for the issue of an owner builder permit.

Owner Builder Course Online Overview

Almost anyone can be an owner builder

Over the years Abacus Training has helped hundreds of owner builders just like you to successfully manage and coordinate their projects and build your own home.

Many of them have saved thousands of dollars along the way!

The course is designed to give you the skills and knowledge to manage and run a domestic construction project.
You will also learn about your responsibilities and obligations as an owner builder.
It will not teach you how to swing a hammer, hang a door, fix plasterboard or lay drainage pipes, that is what the experts do and why they have completed studies and gained experience in their respective fields.
​We teach you how to organise and manage those trades, how to buy right, what to consider when you are designing your house.

- WHAT THE OWNER BUILDER COURSE COVERS

  • Plan reading and interpretation for owner builders
  • Insurances that are required for your owner builder project
  • Roles and responsibilities of an owner-builder (legal aspects)
  • Workplace health and safety (occupational health and safety regulations)
  • Strategies for owner builders to manage conflict prevention and resolution
  • Planning and scheduling your owner builder works (construction schedules, participant registers)
  • How owner builders can effectively work with consultants and professionals (design and engineering)
  • Owner builder contract requirements (legal requirements of contracting with tradespersons and suppliers)
  • Creating financial control and record keeping (establishing a budget and managing project cash flows) to keep your owner builder project on track

The course also gives guidance and tuition in using the many tools which are provided in the Owner Builder Project Management Kit and the Safety Management System which have been developed specifically for use by owner builders. We are constantly refining improving and adding to our systems and we make them available (at significantly discounted prices) to all students completing an owner builders course online with ABACUS Training.

Owner Builder Sample Course

Discover

  • How to save the builders margin
  • Why you can build your own home
  • How to buy materials at trade price
  • The satisfaction of doing it yourself
  • How you can save thousands on building your own home
  • The secrets to keeping your project on time and on budget
  • How to satisfy legal requirements of being an owner builder

Plan Reading for Owner Builders

The module presented is “Plan Reading”

It is provided for you to try our online courses and to discover for yourself how good and much fun our courses are and how easy they are to work through.

If you experience any trouble downloading the file please contact us at rick.heaton@ownerbuildercourses.com

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Owner Builder Site Safety

Owner Builders represent a significant part of the total construction numbers for building approvals issued in respect to domestic dwellings throughout Australia. Owner Builders as the responsible person on site, takes on the role of the Principal Contractor and is recognised as such in law and must comply with the requirements of the relevant workplace health and safety acts and regulations for the relevant state or territory. In most cases this will require the owner builder to complete a mandatory accredited general safety induction course provided by a Registered Training Organisation.

The basic course and the tools we provide with your owner builder course is in no way meant to substitute for the mandatory course. It is provided to increase you knowledge and awareness and to give you access to tools, knowledge and skill which will help you manage safety on your site.

We can assist you in developing your compliant Construction Management Plans or Emergency Response Plans through our editable templates. Call us for more information 0418 455 788

Visit your state workcover site for more information.

Owner Builder Insights

In keeping with our theme of providing the very best in Owner Builder information we run an owner builder blog and an owner builder forum. Each of them are written to give as much information to the owner builder as possible. The blog is open and available for all to view, the information is provided free of charge as a service to owner builders all over the world, while the forum is restricted access to our online and correspondence students.

Each of these valuable resources becomes better and more effective as you our students participate and give your feedback and experiences ” Insights” for all to share. So please read the blog posts and leave your comments or thoughts.

Just another way we continue to bring you the best in owner building.

Best Regards and Happy Building – Rick Heaton