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Construction Calamity: Chinese Building Collapse
Business
Monday January 4 2016

Construction Calamity: Chinese Building Collapse

The Shenzhen building debris mudslide is another construction calamity that brings into focus building and urban control regulation for all the wrong reasons.

Stop Fire Spreading Up, Up and Away
Buildings
Monday October 26 2015

Stop Fire Spreading Up, Up and Away

Three and a half centuries ago, during the wee hours of a dry hot day in September 1666, a small fire started at a bakery on...

Victoria’s Building Regulation Mess
Business
Monday May 25 2015

Victoria’s Building Regulation Mess

Over recent years, few building industry regimes around Australia have been subject to as much criticism as that in Victoria.

Confidence in Victoria Building Industry Waning
Residential
Thursday April 16 2015

Confidence in Victoria Building Industry Waning

The Victorian domestic building industry is in crisis with disputes at an all-time high coupled with training at rock bottom, creating total misery for the participants...

Best Practice Building Controls for Developing Nations
Business
Thursday March 19 2015

Best Practice Building Controls for Developing Nations

Sadly it is the poorest and most densely populated countries that bear the brunt of the most brutal manifestations of building control failure when disaster presents...

International Building Regulations Could Save Lives
Business
Wednesday March 11 2015

International Building Regulations Could Save Lives

Natural disasters be they earthquakes, tsunamis or bush fires kill scores, sometimes thousands of people.