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Apartment buyers are demanding to know why the state’s building watchdog altered prohibition orders for the twin 22-storey towers last month that could prevent them from getting their deposits back.
Architecture news & editorial desk A Vision Document published by the University of New South Wales seeks to champion ‘Ethical Civil Infrastructure and Sustainable Environments’ and outlines that major problems in the building and construction industry have been evoking regulatory responses from various governments in Australia. Published in the wake of the recent apartment building collapse in Miami, Florida, the document asks if the tragedy would have ever occurred if engineering ethics were upheld at every link in the supply chain. It also points out that legislative responses are comm...
UNSW The recent apartment building collapse in Miami, Florida, is a tragic reminder of the huge impacts engineering can have on our lives. Would recent high-profile problems in the building and construction industry have happened if engineering ethics had been upheld at every link in the supply chain? That’s one of the key questions posed in a new Vision Document from UNSW Sydney’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The document seeks to champion ‘Ethical Civil Infrastructure and Sustainable Environments’ and notes that major problems in the building and construction indus...
The Mascot Towers debacle in which apartment owners were forced to evacuate the building has led to a raft of legislative changes, yet the 132 unit owners say they have been left forgotten. Now many who were once "silent" have come forward, ahead of a vote to decide their future, as a last plea to the government.
Light-touch regulation keeps on failing homebuyers in faulty towers We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Mike Steketee Normal text size Advertisement It is all too familiar: another developer of apartment towers facing questions over alleged defects in one of its buildings and the structural integrity of another. After a whistleblower contacted state MPs and the ABC expressing concern about a tower building that is part of the 960-apartment Skyview development at Castle Hill, NSW Fair Trading found after an inspection “the existence of str...