Andrew Little has been suspended and issued a significant fine for risking public safety and causing serious financial and emotional harm to consumers.

The ADL Home Building and Constructions worker was delivered a show cause notice by the Victorian Building Authority (VBA) foreshadowing disciplinary action on 58 grounds, including knowingly disobeying the Building Act 1993.

The builder was handed fines totalling $160,000, the statutory maximum disqualification period of three years and the ban of his building registrations.

The show cause notice identified Andrew’s conduct that posed a risk to public safety, including:

• Presenting a design for approval that was non-compliant for fire safety
• Failing to include sprinklers in the design for a specialist disability accommodation facility
• Failing to include fire safety in the design which was required in the building permit

It also states allegations regarding Andrew’s conduct and financial and emotional harm reported by the consumers, including:

• Commissioning work under a non-compliant major domestic building contract
• Taking money for domestic building work without having domestic building insurance
• Abandoning business owners with non-compliant building, requiring remediation to make it suitable for initial purpose

Building sites in Kurunjang and Emerald were the main locations in the show cause notice and outlines a pattern of incompetence to recognise him as unfit to continue holding a building registration.

“The VBA is continuing to use its full suite of disciplinary powers to ensure those who harm consumers are held to account,” VBA acting chief executive Todd Bentley says.

“Protecting consumers is our priority and that means removing those who do the wrong thing from the industry.

Andrew is appealing the immediate suspension to VCAT.