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Special report by the Sydney Morning Herald into shoddy contruction of highrise apartments in Sydney.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/specials/natl/buildings/index.html
Some headlines from that link:
"High-rise crisis looming:
Up to one third of all new residential buildings in NSW may be faulty because of laws that allow private contractors to certify their own work"
"How has the system gone so dangerously wrong?:
The apartment in Regis Towers - one of Sydney's newest and biggest apartment blocks - had cost $500,000 three years earlier. So how did a building inspector produce a 16-page report which concluded that "reasonable habitation of the unit would be extremely difficult"?"
"Off to a soggy start:
The off-the-plan waterfront apartment in Manly cost $850,000 - but lost its ceiling on the first day."
"Building facades crashing onto footpaths:
Chunks of stone and concrete falling from high-rise buildings are putting pedestrians in Sydney's CBD at increasing risk. In one case not reported to the council, a slab of granite fell into the empty sandpit of an inner-city kindergarten."
"Living in a legal limbo:
Why were people allowed to move into a block of units that did not have final council approval? Now, writes Gerard Ryle, nobody seems able to help the residents fix the problems."
Special report by the Sydney Morning Herald into shoddy contruction of highrise apartments in Sydney.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/specials/natl/buildings/index.html
Some headlines from that link:
"High-rise crisis looming:
Up to one third of all new residential buildings in NSW may be faulty because of laws that allow private contractors to certify their own work"
"How has the system gone so dangerously wrong?:
The apartment in Regis Towers - one of Sydney's newest and biggest apartment blocks - had cost $500,000 three years earlier. So how did a building inspector produce a 16-page report which concluded that "reasonable habitation of the unit would be extremely difficult"?"
"Off to a soggy start:
The off-the-plan waterfront apartment in Manly cost $850,000 - but lost its ceiling on the first day."
"Building facades crashing onto footpaths:
Chunks of stone and concrete falling from high-rise buildings are putting pedestrians in Sydney's CBD at increasing risk. In one case not reported to the council, a slab of granite fell into the empty sandpit of an inner-city kindergarten."
"Living in a legal limbo:
Why were people allowed to move into a block of units that did not have final council approval? Now, writes Gerard Ryle, nobody seems able to help the residents fix the problems."
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