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    Defect: New Houses, Units & Additions
    Defect: New Houses, Units & Additions
    Defect: New Houses, Units & Additions
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    Defect: New Houses, Units & Additions

    By Mark Whitby

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    As a result of inspecting hundreds of recently built houses, units,
    and additions (particularly since 1996), it became increasingly
    apparent that there has been a sharp decline in the quality of
    work at least in the residential housing sector.
    This book attempts to defi ne basic contractual termssuch
    as defect, specifi cation, and performancethat form the very
    basis for quality in housing.
    Once defi ned, these terms should go a long way to ending
    the shortcutting rife in the industry, make insurance fairer for
    homeowners, and greatly reduce the costs associated with
    building disputes.
    It also attempts to set up various models to make this all happen
    and to ensure that quality is of a high standard well into the future
    so as to avoid a sizeable blight resulting from the steady decline
    in the standard of building work being constructed today.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris AU
    Release dateApr 21, 2014
    ISBN9781493137053
    Defect: New Houses, Units & Additions
    Author

    Mark Whitby

    Mark Whitby is a building consultant and architect who has extensive experience (over a period of more than thirty years) assessing quality of work in houses, units, additions, and apartments in the Victorian residential building sector. He has inspected a wide variety of styles of houses—big and small, old and new—including many houses and additions under construction today. He diagnoses problems and scopes the rectification works needed to bring defective homes up to a workmanlike standard.

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