Dr Jonathan Drane, the city whisperer
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A Teaching Framework for City Development Processes
Dr Jon Drane provided a framework for understanding City Development Processes and more recently updated this to include the concept of Place Economy and Property Development Dynamics. See youtube video below and his Faster Class offering for professional development in Property Development.
Advocating for Professionalisation of Property Development
The property development industry is experiencing the continued entry of untrained, non professional players. There are very low barriers to entry to the world of property development. The result has been the rise of poor quality buidings and the horrors of the past decade of dangerous defects.
Dr Drane is advocating for the creation of a doctorate in ‘city and property development processes’ that supports the improvement of professional recognition and credentialing of property developers. See our youtube video on A Decade of Dangerous Defects which includes the tragedies of the decade.
Dangerous Defects Chronology Apartment Towers
Dr Jon Drane created the Defects Dilemma research and advocacy programme in 2018 and has been a guest presenter at national and international conferences on the topic of Dangerous Defects in Apartment Towers. This chronology of building defects shows the tragedies and dangers of poor workmanship and process on construction sites that can be deadly.https://www.jondrane.net/building-defects-chronology-remembering/
The Defects Dilemma. Solving dangerous defects in apartment towers
Dr Jon Drane created the Defects Dilemma research and advocacy programme in 2018 and has been a guest presenter at national and international conferences on the topic of Dangerous Defects in Apartment Towers. This research into building defects shows the tragedies and dangers of poor workmanship and process on construction sites that can be deadly.https://www.jondrane.net/publications/building-defects-dilemma/
How safe is your apartment tower?
Dr Jon Drane has focussed on the fact that our cities are ageing as well as growing and past construction methods and the economic life of buildings is being challenged. Buildings built in the mid twentieth century were the first modernist constructions using steel and concrete in high rise situations. Dr Jon offers a history check of your apartment tower to identify possible risk factors due to age and decay of building structures and elements.https://www.jondrane.net/how-safe-is-your-apartment-tower/