About this site
A search layer over one public register. Not the register itself, and not a substitute for it.
The source
Everything here comes from the QBCC Licensed Contractors Register, published by the Queensland Building and Construction Commission under CC-BY 4.0.
⚠️ A note on how it was obtained, because it matters. The direct CSV
download returns an HTTP 202 holding page — no text, no
captcha, no external script — and keeps doing so. We did not try to get past
it. The documented route works perfectly: the portal's own
CKAN datastore_search API, paginated. That is the path the
publisher advertises, and it is the one we use.
This copy was collected on 2026-08-18: 196,116 source rows, 108,536 licences.
There is nothing new about this data. What did not exist is a way to search it that a search engine can reach: the QBCC's own site has 1,008 pages in its sitemap, all of them editorial, and not one page per licensee. Its licence search runs on a separate application.
What this site is not
- Not the official register. A licence can be suspended or cancelled the day after our collection. For anything that matters, use the QBCC's own licence search.
- Not a recommendation. Holding a licence is the legal minimum to do the work. It says nothing about whether the work will be any good.
- Not affiliated with the QBCC or the Queensland Government.
- Not a broker. Where this site invites you to describe a job, it passes the requirement on. It does not quote, hold prices, or take a booking.
What is deliberately left out
The register publishes a full street address for every licensee. 75.5% of licences belong to individuals — sole traders, whose registered address is normally their home.
The street address is dropped when the file is read, before anything reaches a database. The finest location anywhere on this site — pages, search index, result card, and the datasets we sell — is the postcode. The name is published, because that is the question the QBCC tells homeowners to ask; the address is not, because that is a different question nobody asked.
Coverage
Queensland only. Every other state and territory licenses building work separately, with its own numbering, and none of it is in this file. Some Queensland licensees give an interstate address — that is why NSW and Victorian postcodes appear.