AIUS NSW Seminar

Better Building Regulation or Better Buildings?

Wednesday 14 September 2022 5.00pm
Virtual Event - Link to be provided once registered

In 2018 following the Opal Tower partial collapse, a summary report entitled Building Confidence (otherwise known as the Shergold-Weir report for the two lawyers who authored it) looked at “improving the effectiveness of compliance and enforcement systems for the building and construction industry across Australia”. It didn’t directly address the quality of construction, but “compliance and enforcement” to get there.

The NSW government then moved to further regulate the building industry through a Building Commissioner, David Chandler. Tone believes that his demands that architects, engineers, and certifiers act as ‘building police’ was attacking the wrong end of the problem. This raises the questions about whether increased regulation has improved building quality and at whose expense.

Join us for this follow up to our last talk on the Opal Tower saga.

Key Speaker:
Tone Wheeler
Principal
environa studio