While Opal Tower residents are more badly affected than most, up to 80% of multi-unit buildings have serious defects. Here’s what government can do right now to fix the industry.
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Australia’s commitments to cut emissions are on a collision course with urban growth. We need a much more comprehensive strategy to make the transition to a sustainable built environment.
It’s tempting to blame building certifiers and the fact they are privately employed. But the cracks in the quality of our apartment buildings go deeper and can be fixed.
Buildings are central to creating more sustainable cities, and green ratings are often used to assess how well a building measures up against this goal. But the current system has serious flaws.
There are well-understood ways to minimize the risk of fire spreading through housing – if only developers, homeowners and officials took heed.
New South Wales is the only state that has made meaningful progress on legislation and enforcement of standards capable of creating a sustainable built environment.
The idea of a hot and sunny land is so baked into our thinking about Australia that we’ve failed to design and build houses that protect us from the cold.
There are physical, cultural and legal reasons why fire prevention measures didn’t avert the tragedy at the Grenfell Tower – and other buildings are still at risk.
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Adjunct Professor of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Construction Technology, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer In Construction, Deakin University
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Associate Professor in Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Senior Research Associate, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Associate Professor and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law, The University of Melbourne
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Scientist and Director of Research Communication for the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative, Arizona State University
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Associate professor Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University
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Assistant professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
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Professor, Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Architecture, Adelaide University
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Senior DECRA Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Research Scientist in Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
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Professor of Housing Research, Adelaide University