"Our aim is to make your building project an enjoyable experience by providing practical advice and continued assistance and support right through to your projects completion"
DC Consulting Group Pty Ltd
Phone (03) 5229 5133
Building Surveying, Town Planning, Inspections, Regulatory Advice
"Our aim is to make your building project an enjoyable experience by providing practical advice and continued assistance and support right through to your projects completion"
DC Consulting Group Pty Ltd
Phone (03) 5229 5133
Building Surveying, Town Planning, Inspections, Regulatory Advice
Our team of highly qualified staff is committed to providing advice and assistance from the start to completion of your project.
David Curtain
Company Director, Building Surveyor, Inspector, Planning Consultant
Professional Qualifications and Associations
Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors
Associate Member of the Fire Protection Association of Australia
Member of the Master Builders Association of Victoria
Registered Building Practitioner in Victoria (Building Surveyor) No BS 1502
Registered Building Practitioner in Victoria (Building Inspector) No IN-U 1517
Boards and Committees
Former Ministerial Building Surveyor appointment to the Building Practitioners Board in Victoria for the period from May 1997 to May 2002 (5 years)
Current Building Practitioner Board Co-opted Standby Building Surveyor representative since 2002
Former Building Practitioners Board Representative on the Building Surveying and Allied Practitioners (BSAP) State Committee
Former Executive Committee Member of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors for a period of 18 consecutive years (concluded August 2003)
Former National Director and Victorian Chapter President and Vice President of the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors
Former member of the former LARP (Local Approvals Review Program) State Reference Group through the Municipal Association of Victoria
Former member of the former Building Planning and Housing Standing Committee and Building Advisory Group of the Municipal Association of Victoria
Former member of the former Building Industry Reference Group, former Access for Disabled Persons Special Working Party, former Fire Precautions in Nightclubs and Public Assembly Buildings Working Party, former Good Design Guide for Medium Density Housing Design Assistance Training Committee of the former Office of Planning and Heritage
Former member of the former Commercial Building Energy Code Advisory Panel of the former Department of Manufacturing and Industry Development
Former participant in the Home Energy Rating Scheme Pilot Program of Energy Victoria
Private Sector
Last eleven (11) years as a building surveying and town-planning consultant including:
- Specialist building advice and opinion on Building Act, Regulations and Codes
- Expert opinion and reports on building standards
- Building permits and inspections
- Essential safety measures inspections and reports
- Fire safety inspections, audits and reports
- Representations on notices, orders, and VCAT disputes
- Representation, coordination and facilitation of statutory reports, consents, permits and approvals processes and hearings
- Vic Code, Good Design Guide, and Rescode site analysis, site context, and design response submissions
- Research, advice and submissions on use and development and coordination and facilitation of statutory approvals processes
- Planning scheme amendments
- Planning permit applications
- Liquor license applications
Public Sector
Previous twenty three years in local government as a manager, building surveyor, building inspector and technician administering building and development legislation and technical standards and codes with the key provincial cities of Greater Geelong, Geelong and Ballarat including:
- Management of building, planning and environmental health services
- Municipal building surveyor and or inspector responsibilities
- Acted as council delegate under Building Act, Planning and Environment Act, and Health Act
- Regulating clients
- Business planning and development, policy development, budget and records management, staff training and development
- Report preparation and attendance at council and committee meetings
- Council delegate on development hearings panels
- Administration of notices, orders, appeals and enforcement proceedings
- Building permits and inspections
- Fire safety in existing buildings
- Complaint and or dispute resolution
- Development and delivery of information and advisory services