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🎯 Our thoughts on how to improve construction quality across Australia - our latest blog post
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📰 Our latest blog post
Opinion: Everyone is talking about how bad things are in residential construction, and I completely agree. What I don't see are solutions being discussed—just blame. Acknowledging the problem is the first step, but the next steps are taking responsibility, learning, and then taking action! So in this latest post we put forward some strategies on how to improve residential construction quality.
Construction Consequences: When Is Enough, Enough?
Summary:"Is Your Home Built to Last?"
Home Owners across Australia are fed up with poor construction quality and endless defects. Even with regulations in place, many builders seem to face little accountability. In our latest post, we take a closer look at what's going wrong and share some practical ideas—like making Inspection and Test Plans mandatory and introducing a demerit point system—that could help turn things around. It’s time to raise the bar and make sure every home is built to the quality you deserve. Curious to know more? Read the full story.
🔥 News
What else is brewing in the construction sector? Well, quite a lot actually. Here are the best articles from this week. We've highlighter a couple of our favourites, marked with a 👍️
To us, the biggest news of the week was that Metricon had finally sold out its majority share (51%) to an international company.
1st October 2024
Homes for Queenslanders: Builder for 200 social, affordable Southport homes - LINK
Metricon Homes in $115m takeover bid from Japanese firm Sumitomo Forestry - LINK
👍️ Australia's Largest Home Builder, Quietly Sold - LINK
Everything you need to know about the NT government's new housing incentive grant scheme - LINK
WA Premier weighs in on Nicheliving saga - LINK
Wondering whether to go with I-joists or Posi-Struts in your next project? A side-by-side comparative build finally reveals the fastest, most economical flooring construction method - LINK
👍️ NSW Security of Payment Act Amendments – Loophole closed for unlicensed residential builders - LINK 1 | LINK 2
👍️ Architects respond to NSW draft Building Bill - LINK
Time to adapt - the ban on engineered stone - LINK
Five minutes with CSIRO's Melissa James: This month we spend five minutes with Melissa James, Senior experimental scientist at the CSIRO to find out about RapidRate, a new artificial intelligence system that estimates energy efficiency for homes across Australia. - LINK
Homes for Queenslanders: Wynnum social housing fast-tracked - LINK
Have your say: The Northern Beaches (NSW) Housing Crisis - LINK
Queensland’s 33,000 lost homes - LINK
👍️ Housing specialist calls for negative gearing to be ‘optional’ - LINK
Net zero housing deal - LINK
Townsville house prices growing faster than all Australian capital cities - LINK
2nd October 2024
New homes to lift the bar for key workers in regional South Australia - LINK
First regional homes ready for key workers - LINK
Apartment collapse demolishes Labor’s housing target - LINK
Dwelling approvals drop amidst volatility - LINK
👍️ New calls to drop housing targets and standards - LINK
High-density issues hurting Australia's housing goal - LINK
In Australia's housing policy debate, wouldn't the real scandal be if negative gearing WASN'T being examined? - LINK
Fresh tumble in apartments threatens lofty housing goal - LINK
Call for Planning Overhaul to Support Housing Supply - LINK
Double dissolution election threat to be revived in parliament over housing fight, as $100m crisis fund opens - LINK
3rd October 2024
Foreign workers not the answer to construction crisis: Hutchies - LINK
👍️ Australia’s biggest home builder, Metricon, schooled on its handling of customer complaints - LINK | The beginner-friendly course, which costs $2,250 per person, teaches students how to implement a quality management system to boost customer experiences. (Opinion: I can't believe this. It reads like a joke!)
👍️ Fund councils to tackle housing crisis, says ALGA chief - LINK
Worst Housing Approvals result in 10 years – but today there was also good news in NSW - LINK
👍️ Ugly truth about the housing crisis - LINK
SMSF are not distorting the housing Market - LINK
August building approvals stray further from housing target - LINK
Albanese government under fire for housing failure with ABS data showing Australian dream ‘slipping further away’ - LINK
👍️ ‘Scary’ figures: We're only building half of the housing we need - LINK
👍️ 'Business as usual': What the Metricon sale means for Aussies building homes - LINK Personal note: BAU means "Cool and Normal - as in, don't look, look over there!"
“Staggeringly different”: council advises against proposal for Docklands “utopia” - LINK
Redfern’s ‘Murder Mall’ Gets New Lease of Life with $500m Village - LINK
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