"This is not An iPhone fire proof cladding" says the man with the fancy hat.
And with no rules or regulatory body actively monitoring this we have let organised crime run the building trade on the east coast and the calamity of things like this flow. That is bolstered by the unregulated gorging on PRC linked companies on property development in this country.
How many sub standard shitbox apartment buildings do we have that are complete and utter death traps? The best part is we are selling them at or around the highest prices in THE WORLD!
Again, just a stupid bunch of bogan morons, throw us some cash and we are like trained dancing monkeys
SO glad I don't live in one of these dodgy apartments and or invested in one.
The developers should be prosecuted for using these totally inferior and barely tested materials to build these OVERPRICED apartments.
I've seen some pics of some of the dodgy work being done on these apartments......Cutting corners/dodgy welding on structures and all other sorts of problems.
From The Australian. 9th May 2015 "Authorities in the dark on use of fire-risk cladding for skyscrapers
"Building authorities have admitted they are powerless to determine how many skyscrapers are riddled with cheap, highly flammable aluminium cladding that has already killed apartment dwellers overseas.
State governments and local councils across Australia say they are waiting for an investigation by the Victorian Building Authority, which has been charged with uncovering the use of the substandard material statewide, before determining what action they should take.
The Weekend Australian understands the VBA has no power to compel builders to report the use of the material, and is instead relying on a system of self-reporting...."
SO glad I don't live in one of these dodgy apartments and or invested in one.
The developers should be prosecuted for using these totally inferior and barely tested materials to build these OVERPRICED apartments.
I've seen some pics of some of the dodgy work being done on these apartments......Cutting corners/dodgy welding on structures and all other sorts of problems.
Bloody sickening.
Meriton apartments were already death traps before they got their hands on all this investor grade Chinese shiite.
I remember massive court battles by owners over lack of fire proofing between apartments etc.
Imagine what they are like since everyone has been building for Chinese investors with Chinese products.
That fire in Melbourne a few years back was started by a cigarette but touching the "fireproof" cladding.
Trollie
15 Jun 2017, 10:37 AM
The usual racism from the bears. Nothing to see here.
You think complaining about fake Chinese building products is racist?
Meriton apartments were already death traps before they got their hands on all this investor grade Chinese shiite.
I remember massive court battles by owners over lack of fire proofing between apartments etc.
Imagine what they are like since everyone has been building for Chinese investors with Chinese products.
That fire in Melbourne a few years back was started by a cigarette but touching the "fireproof" cladding. You think complaining about fake Chinese building products is racist?
"Scores of dead" is nothing to see?
Nothing to see? It's a comment you'd expect from such an infantile, he is by far the most incompetent bull in existence.
Leaving him aside, a system of self reporting? WTF?
Here's an idea, one person attend a high rise development with an oxy torch or similar, remove a panel to a grassed area and torch it, of it explodes into flames guess what? It's dodgy and the whole thing needs to be redone and inspected the same way after completion.
It's really that simple but self reporting, as a governing body that makes them as culpable as the builder using this shite material as they are effectively saying they will do nothing.
Nothing to see? It's a comment you'd expect from such an infantile, he is by far the most incompetent bull in existence.
Leaving him aside, a system of self reporting? WTF?
Here's an idea, one person attend a high rise development with an oxy torch or similar, remove a panel to a grassed area and torch it, of it explodes into flames guess what? It's dodgy and the whole thing needs to be redone and inspected the same way after completion.
It's really that simple but self reporting, as a governing body that makes them as culpable as the builder using this shite material as they are effectively saying they will do nothing.
Of course the responsible agency won't do anything.
I watch the insider trading that clearly occurs daily on the ASX, I watch AUSTRAC continually failing to catch massive money laundering criminals, EPA, ASIC etc all popping their dumb heads up post event, assuring us that they are all indispensable.
We have a joke agency pretending to regulate charities, yet it hasn't closed down a single 'child welfare' charity over being accessories after the fact in relation to the criminal offence of child rape- for Christ's sake!
Even while there is a royal commission occurring into "institutional responses to child rape"! Does it get any worse?
Btw- it doesn't look like you'd need the expense of an oxy torch. You'd just need a couple of dole blunders butt out their ciggies on the cladding!
Sounds a bit like tha shit dongas 'n office buildings on FIFO minin' sites is 'typically' made of ta me maybes?
'N it also sounds like it's more likely ta be old buildings than new ones? As in old buildings wot's bin refurbed on tha outside wif tha shit ta made 'em look pretty 'n be a bit more environmentally friendly re insulation properties generally.
But no-one (?? - amongst all tha architects 'n construction engineers or wotever ?? ) has ever had tha brains ta figure out that when (almost rather than if) tha flammable shit in between tha inner 'n outer aluminum skins does go up, it'll have a 'chimney' effect when used ta clad multi-storey buildings 'n just be very, very bad news all 'round.
Sheesh, it even sounds like tha poor ole firies fighting it don't have much chance, wif tha water they spray on it just tending ta bounce off tha outer aluminium skin?
A Professional Demographer to an amateur demographer:"negative natural increase will never outweigh the positive net migration"
Sounds a bit like tha shit dongas 'n office buildings on FIFO minin' sites is 'typically' made of ta me maybes?
'N it also sounds like it's more likely ta be old buildings than new ones? As in old buildings wot's bin refurbed on tha outside wif tha shit ta made 'em look pretty 'n be a bit more environmentally friendly re insulation properties generally.
But no-one (?? - amongst all tha architects 'n construction engineers or wotever ?? ) has ever had tha brains ta figure out that when (almost rather than if) tha flammable shit in between tha inner 'n outer aluminum skins does go up, it'll have a 'chimney' effect when used ta clad multi-storey buildings 'n just be very, very bad news all 'round.
Sheesh, it even sounds like tha poor ole firies fighting it don't have much chance, wif tha water they spray on it just tending ta bounce off tha outer aluminium skin?
I'm trying to remember my fire fighter training, but something about molten aluminum and water rings a bell!
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