Class 2 Builder Sydney
Engage Construction is a registered Class 2 builder working on apartment buildings across Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and Inner West.
Class 2 work sits under the Design and Building Practitioners Act, which means the builder has to be registered, the designs have to be declared before anyone is on site, and the paperwork has to hold together from the first lodgement through to the occupation certificate. We manage that whole sequence, not the building work alone.
Most of the buildings we work on are occupied while we are in them. Residents are living around the job. That shapes how we programme, how we stage access, and how much notice people get before something noisy or disruptive happens.
Our Registration.
Registration under the DBP Act is separate from a builder's licence. Holding one does not give you the other, and a builder without the right registration cannot make the declarations a Class 2 project requires. We hold both.
15+
Years Building Experience
100%
Licensed & Insured
Ask any builder quoting on a Class 2 job for their building practitioner number and check it before you appoint them. If they cannot give you one, they cannot lodge the Building Compliance Declaration your occupation certificate depends on.
Registered
Building Practitioner (DBP Act)
Lic. 321449C
NSW Builders Licence
What We Handle on a Class 2 Project
From the first design declaration through to the occupation certificate.
01
Before Work Starts
We confirm every design practitioner on the job holds current registration in the right category, and that the design set is complete. A missing regulated design is not a problem you want to find halfway through a build.
We coordinate the Design Compliance Declarations and their lodgement on the NSW Planning Portal, then lodge our own Building Compliance Declaration confirming we will build in accordance with the declared designs.
02
During Construction
We run the site: programme, staging, access, subcontractors, and communication with residents and the strata manager.
Designs change on almost every job. Each variation to a regulated design needs its own declaration and its own lodgement, and we track those as they happen rather than reconstructing the file at the end. This is the step most often missed, and it is the reason occupation certificates get held up.
03
At Completion
We lodge the final Building Compliance Declaration and provide the documentation your certifier needs.
If a notice of expected completion is required, we flag the timing well ahead of it rather than the week you need it.
Class 2 Projects We Have Delivered
Remedial: Melody St, Coogee
Retaining Wall: Serpentine Pde, Vaucluse
Remedial: Serpentine Pde, Vaucluse
Remedial: Moore Pard Rd, Paddington
Remedial: Burton St, Darlinghurst
Remedial: Bathurst St, Sydney
Retaining Wall: Hardiman Ave, Randwick
Remedial: Moncur St, Woollahra
Remedial: Herbert St, St Leonards
Remedial: Curlewis St, Bondi Beach
Who We Work With.
Class 2 decisions rarely sit with one person. How we communicate depends on who is making the call.
Strata committees and owners corporations
Most of our Class 2 work comes through committees dealing with a defect, a water ingress problem or a remediation programme they have been putting off. We are used to explaining scope and cost to a committee rather than a single decision-maker, and to the reality that a general meeting sits between the quote and the start date.
Strata managers
Clear staging, clear reporting, and notice to residents that arrives before the work does rather than after.
Remedial engineers and consultants
Coordination on investigations, scope and specification, particularly on water ingress where the cause is rarely where the symptom shows up.
Architects and designers
We work to the drawings and raise buildability problems early, while there is still time to resolve them on paper.
Where We Work.
Eastern Suburbs
Woollahra | Bellevue Hill | Double Bay | Paddington | Bondi | Bronte | Tamarama | Randwick | Queens Park | Rose Bay | Vaucluse | Dover Heights | Clovelly | Coogee
Lower North Shore
Kirribilli | Milsons Point | McMahons Point | North Sydney | Neutral Bay | Cremorne | Mosman | Cammeray | Crows Nest | Wollstonecraft | Waverton | Greenwich | Northbridge | Naremburn | Artarmon | Lane Cove
If your building sits outside these areas, check with us anyway. We may still be able to get there.
Inner West
Balmain | Rozelle | Annandale | Leichhardt | Newtown | Marrickville | Stanmore | Petersham | Dulwich Hill | Summer Hill | Haberfield
Request a site visit.
Tell us about your building
If you have an engineers or building report, send it to us and we’ll review it before we visit. We’ll come back to you with next steps and a clear scope you can take to your committee.
Licensing & memberships
NSW Builders Licence No. 321449C
Registered Building Practitioner BUP0003407 (Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020)
Master Builders Association of NSW, Membership No. 3014616
Strata Community Association (NSW)
Australasian Concrete Repair and Remedial Building Association
National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC)
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