Is licensing for me? External plastering

If you plan, schedule and carry out external plastering work on any category of building, then this is the class you should apply to be licensed in.

The skills and knowledge required to be licensed in this class include but are not limited to the following:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the regulatory environment of the building construction industry. This includes understanding of the purposes of the Building Act, the Building Code, the Licensed Building Practitioner Scheme, the building consent process, key roles in the design and building process and the importance of operating within your own competence.
  
  
• Demonstrate knowledge of current building and external plastering trade practice. This includes knowledge of technical documents (E2/AS1), knowledge of the installation process, knowledge of interactions with trades, describing safe working practices and environmental management on site, and demonstrating knowledge of site set-up requirements.
  
  
• Carry out planning for external plastering. This includes reading and interpreting working drawings and ordering and coordinating material on site.
  
  
• Carry out external plastering work. For solid plastering this includes checking and preparing surfaces for plastering, checking and preparing frame construction, substrate and reinforcing, applying flanking coat, applying plaster finishing coat, and curing plastered surfaces.

For Proprietary Plaster Cladding Systems this includes checking framing and set-up, cutting and fixing polystyrene board, checking coating and reinforcing substrate, applying a proprietary levelling base plaster to a solid substrate, and applying finishing coats to prepared proprietary plaster cladding substrates.

Area(s) of practice

You can elect to be assessed in more than one area of practice (i.e., solid plastering and proprietary plaster cladding systems). Whether or not you elect to be assessed in more than one area of practice does not affect your licensing ID card -  it will show that you are licensed in 'External Plastering'.

Once licensed you have a professional responsibility to work within your area(s) of competence.