Burnett Country Certifiers

About

Rick Drew is the Proprietor of Burnett Country Certifiers and is a licensed building certifier. He started the practice in 2005 and has now been in the building industry for 40 years. In that time he has obtained an unprecedented amount of experience and knowledge in a wide variety of aspects of the industry. In 2000, Rick decided to leave the main stream building industry to study law. Instead, he was convinced to study Building Surveying based on the premise that the years of building industry experience would be of untold value in this field. The interpretation and application of legislation is a major function of the profession.

In addition to being a building certification practitioner, Rick was a member of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Health as a casual lecturer in the area of the Built Environment at CQ University Australia from December 2006 to February 2011. The areas he lecture in were building legislation, performance based legislation and building infrastructure auditing. He found lecturing highly beneficial as a practising building surveyor through interaction with students, many of who were already licensed building certifiers studying toward their bachelor degree. This involvement kept Rick current with the latest building legislation, codes and standards as well as the opportunity to play a part in the future development of the building surveying profession.

As a private building certifier, Rick believes that any successful practitioner in the profession must provide a high level of service to clients and take the approach that "common sense must always prevail" while complying with statutory requirements. This attitude has provided him with a successful career in building surveying.