Construction · Nigeria
Register as a builder (CORBON)
Become a CORBON-registered builder — required to practise building construction, maintenance and management: meet qualifications → submit project documentation → apply & pay → registration.
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Who you will deal with
The steps
- Meet qualification and referee requirements
- Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria (CORBON)
- Hold building qualifications: upload 2 CORBON certificates + 3 national (or 2 national + 2 state) certificates, a Certificate of Experience endorsed by a Registered Builder, and 2 referees who are Registered Builders with 3+ years post-registration.
- Certificates; Certificate of Experience; 2 referees
- Eligibility
- Submit project documentation
- CORBON
- Upload a Project Quality Management Plan, a Project Health & Safety Management Plan and a Construction Programme.
- QMP; HSE plan; construction programme
- Documentation
- Apply and pay on the BuMaP portal
- CORBON
- Apply on the CORBON BuMaP registration portal and pay the fee (₦45,000 for Nigerians; ₦65,000 temporary registration for foreigners).
- Online application; fee
- Application stage
- Registration
- CORBON
- On assessment, register as a builder with a practice licence. Construction firms must also engage NIA/NSE/COREN-registered professionals as relevant.
- Passed assessment
- On registration
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The numbers behind the decision
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