Ontario partnership to boost confidence in residential construction for homeowners

by nithya_caleb | November 24, 2017 9:28 am

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Earlier this fall, the Ontario Building Officials Association[2] (OBOA), Tarion Warranty Corporation[3], and the Ontario Home Builders’ Association[4] (OHBA) announced a partnership agreement to increase consumer protection for new home-buyers, improve industry standards, and achieve greater consistency in education and application of standards in the province’s new home-building industry.

The Ontario Building Partnership solidifies a framework in which the three organizations can act to uphold excellence in Ontario’s building industry. Although the partners have traditionally worked together, this agreement provides a blueprint to uphold excellence and elevate the new home building industry.

One of the partnership’s first initiatives includes striking a new working group to focus on:

• advocating for a legislated, province-wide program to protect home buyers from illegal builders;
• partnering on public education initiatives, including ‘Who Does What’ campaigns, information sharing on trade strikes and other industry-wide matters and regional issues such as soil conditions and radon detection; and
• ensuring Ontario’s home-buyers benefit from consistent and improved construction standards across the province.

Source URL: https://www.constructioncanada.net/ontario-partnership-boost-confidence-residential-construction-homeowners/

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