Western Australia Recommendations for reforms to building regulation released in December 2023 In late December 2023, the WA government published recommendations for reforms to the state’s building … [Read more...]
THE ACT IS PUNCHING ABOVE ITS WEIGHT!
The ACT government introduces significant reforms directed at improving outcomes for consumers purchasing new homes in the ACT. Today, the ACT Government introduced the Property Developers Bill 2003 … [Read more...]
Casenote: City of Port Phillip v Shout Rock Cafes Pty. Ltd. [2023] VSCA 327
21 December 2023 On 19 December 2023, the Victorian Court of Appeal handed down its decision in the appeal by City of Port Phillip (Council) against the decision of the Supreme Court which set aside … [Read more...]
Building Product Performance – Recent case law and International Guidelines for Good Practice Regulation
Building Product Performance – Recent case law and International Guidelines for Good Practice Regulation A decision of the Federal Court of Australia late last year highlights how some manufacturers … [Read more...]
Highlights from the proposed NSW building regulation reforms
Highlights from the proposed NSW building regulation reforms The NSW government is consulting on an enormous package of reforms to over eight Acts and regulations. The reforms also propose … [Read more...]
More changes ahead for the Building Act – new bill introduced into the Victorian Parliament on 21 June 2022
See our article on the proposed amendments - More changes ahead for the Building Act … [Read more...]
Building confidence: A report for the Building Ministers’ Forum in Australia has spearheaded efforts to reform regulation and improve safety
In September 2017, Prof. Peter Shergold and I were commissioned by the Australian Building Ministers’ Forum (BMF) to assess the country’s building regulation systems. The BMF, which comprises state, … [Read more...]
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Is it time for governments to remove the mandatory professional indemnity insurance requirements for building surveyors?
There was a lot of press during 2019 about the state of the professional indemnity insurance (PII) market in Australia for private building surveyors (also known as building certifiers). We heard of … [Read more...]
Better Buildings & Consumer Protection
This article was first published in the AIBS Building Surveyor magazine issue 2/2019 How do we regulate so that buildings get built properly? AND What do we do to protect consumers when buildings … [Read more...]
Summary of cladding ‘bans’ in Australia
Summary of cladding 'bans' 31 Oct 19 … [Read more...]