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No more panic evacs from crisis-hit blocks

  • 30/09/2022
  • Author Jimmy-T

EXCLUSIVE: The days of immediately ordering all the residents out of blocks, even where major, potentially life-threatening problems have been discovered, could be a thing of the past thanks to…

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    Podcast: Chandler reveals true defects challenge

    • 19/10/2021
    • Author Jimmy-T

    In this week’s podcast we hear the voice of defect rectification in NSW as David Chandler takes to the airwaves to explain why two different surveys have revealed that about…

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      On brink of evacuation after defects warning

      • 14/10/2021
      • Author Jimmy-T

      A perfect storm of disagreeing experts, extreme caution, genuine fears for safety and an earthquake, took an apartment block to the brink of being evacuated last week. Add in concerns…

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        Flat Chat Wrap #28 – Residents out on the street as another Faulty Tower crumbles

        • 18/06/2019
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Residents of the 130-plus apartments in the Mascot Tower apartment block in Sydney’s South were evacuated over the weekend when cracks in walls and supporting beams suddenly widened. JimmyT and…

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          Faulty towers – hope for the best but prepare for catastrophe

          • 17/06/2019
          • Author Jimmy-T

          It’s hard to know exactly how to respond to the chaos at Mascot Towers.  If you haven’t heard, last weekend hundreds of residents were forced to leave a South Sydney…

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