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So the findings say they will ensure that builder, engineers and designers of high rise apartment buildings will have to be registered. And that the structure follows building codes. So up till now they weren’t? So I could have rocked up with a sketch of a building, say it’s all good and off we go?
If you own your own torrens title home and hire someone to do work and they are not qualified in their profession they can be fined. If you as a home owner of your own place do not do due diligience and check for the licence of a tradses person you have engaged to carry out work you may not be able to make any claim against any inferior work.
But you buy off the plan. In a high rise apartment block. You do not have the input of who builds, designs or checks. You in good faith believe that those who have handed you a contract have done all the checks. Done their due diligence. Then you move into your brand new apartment and there are faults. But no body knows whose fault it is. How could this happen? With tonnes of steel and concrete above peoples heads? But now they think that there should be compliance?
If a torrens title home owner wants to build onto their property, they have to just thru hoops to ensure and prove compliance. Why not those who build strata?