Building inspection plays a significant role in the construction of buildings of every country. Just like any other industry building inspection has its own challenges. This paper firstly investigates the challenges of the current municipal inspection system and secondly determine an alternative approach to building inspections challenges in South African municipalities. This paper also gives recommendation on how to address the challenges faced by building inspectors. As an alternative approach to building inspection challenges in South Africa.

The study focused on assessing the challenges based on available literature and on user perspective in order to improve the building inspections within municipalities.