Category: Developer Practices

Join our summer webinar series and learn practical skills on how to optimize the ‘property development site of the future’ with a new Site Optimisation app in a Game Learning…

The essentials of urban and city development. I really enjoyed being a part of this exciting training programme. The participants were highly engaging and the day was fun as well.…

Cities often have ‘dead areas’ like old ports and industrial areas and even residential areas that are no longer active. Dr Jon Drane unfolds the mystery of how he treats…

This revealing research on complex building defects shows the chronology of cases across the world and Australia. See this chronology of defects with the drama and tragedy from the horror…

Solving the real cause of defects in the multi-apartment sector is becoming more and more complex. Legal cases need better integrated assessment of expert input. Here is an integrated solution…

Solving the real cause of defects in the multi-apartment sector is becoming more and more complex. Legal cases need better integrated assessment of expert input. Here is an integrated solution…

Optimum Search City Research Centre is conducting research into the systemic causes of building defects in the high rise multi-apartment tower sector. The research project is called The Defects Dilemma…

This is a repost of a 2018 petition created to apply for an extension of time to the legislative processes in play at the time which was being rushed through…

Five years ago I was asked by Engineers Australia to contribute to the Lambert Report (2015) and for my article Building Defects: A builder’s view to be included on the…

The ‘Defects Dilemma Initiative’ which helps bring peace of mind to high rise apartment owners due to fear of dangerous defects, today obtained a formal positive Ministerial level response and Departmental…