As high-rise buildings sink or fall apart, NSW Government gets its finger out on the Building Confidence Report

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Published: Thursday, 27 June 2019 14:32

Well, what a mess. First it was the Opal Tower, then the Mascot Tower and everyone running for cover. Whose fault is it, private certifiers struggling to get indemnity insurance, everyone prepared to acccept certification from everyone else, poor standards on clearly flammable cladding, other lightweight building materials, building blocks of flats on soil known to contain an aquifer running down to Botany Bay? One day someone might wonder about building on flood prone land!

Yesterday the Government released the Building Stronger Foundations Discussion Paper, implementing the Government Response to the Shergold Weir Building Confidence Report released in February 2018. Yes, a year and a half ago.

Here is a link to the discussion paper and submissions are invited to close at “11:59pm, Wednesday, 24 July 2019.” That’s a Minute to Midnight, a suitably dramatic conclusion to the consultation period. Don’t be late.