The big lesson from Opal Tower is that badly built apartments aren't only an issue for residents
- Written by Laura Crommelin, Research Lecturer, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
The saga of Opal Tower, the 36-storey Sydney apartment building evacuated on Christmas Eve after frightening cracking, has helped to expose the deep cracks in Australia’s approach to building apartments.
An interim engineering assessmentreleased yesterday indicates concrete panels cracked due to their manufacture and assembly deviating from...
