Professionalising building inspections to protect lives, strengthen compliance, and ensure quality in South Africa's built environment.
Join the MovementThe Institute of Building Inspectors (IBI) is a registered NPC/NPO dedicated to advancing and professionalising building inspection in South Africa. We strengthen compliance, quality, and safety in the built environment through recognised qualifications, ethics, and CPD.
Vision: To be the recognised professional home of Building Inspectors in South Africa, ensuring every building is inspected to the highest standards of safety, quality, and sustainability.
Mission: Professionalise building inspection through standards, ethics, and qualifications. Partner with government, municipalities, and industry to strengthen compliance. Support inspectors with training, CPD, and career pathways. Advocate for inspectors’ role in safe and sustainable communities.
Weaknesses in the construction and building sector can have serious consequences, including lives lost due to building collapses and unsafe structures, significant financial losses from insurance claims, disputes, and failed developments, as well as delays caused by slow approvals and inefficient compliance systems. These issues ultimately reduce investor confidence in the sector, hindering growth and sustainability.
We advance careers through recognised pathways, uphold the highest ethical and professional standards, and drive advocacy both locally and globally to strengthen and support the industry.
Pursuing qualifications
Early-career practitioners
Qualified inspectors
Senior practitioners & researchers
Municipalities, regulators, banks, insurers, developers
Recognition of inspectors as a regulated profession
1,000+ inspectors trained and accredited
Improved compliance and fewer unsafe structures
Greater public trust in the building inspectorate service
South Africa as continental leader in inspector training