Australia's residential building faults : a view from the state of Victoria Ilozor, Ben, Okoroh, Michael and Egbu, Charles 2003, Australia's residential building faults : a view from the state of Victoria, in AUBEA 2003 : Working together : proceedings of the 28th annual conference of the Australasian Universities' Building Educators Association, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic., pp. 239-254. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Australia's residential building faults : a view from the state of Victoria Author(s) Ilozor, Ben Okoroh, Michael Egbu, Charles Conference name Australasian Universities' Building Educators Association. Conference (28th : 2003 : Geelong, Vic.) Conference location Geelong, Vic. Conference dates 9 -11 Jul. 2003 Title of proceedings AUBEA 2003 : Working together : proceedings of the 28th annual conference of the Australasian Universities' Building Educators Association Editor(s) Langston, Craig Publication date 2003 Conference series Australasian Universities' Building Educators Association Conference Start page 239 End page 254 Publisher Deakin University Place of publication Geelong, Vic. Summary Presented is an examination of residential building faults in the Australian Slate of Victoria. The aim is to determine the interconnections between identified main house faults., with a view to establishing their cause· effect relationships. A total of 42753 residential houses in Victoria were examined for nine key faults fully documented in Archicentre's database. These faults are: rising damp. framing fault, illegal building, stump fault, timber rot, cracking, electrical fault, roof fault and water supply issue. Second to framing fault, roof fault was found to be closely associated with other house faults examined. Hence, this paper concludes that a properly framed and roofed house could limit most of these faults. As illegal building was observed to have only a little overall association with other house faults, this study has implications for the Australia Productivity Commission's on-going efforts to deregulate various aspects of the building and construction industry professions. ISBN 0958192510 9780958192514 Language eng Field of Research 120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning Socio Economic Objective 970112 Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30004955 Document type: Conference Paper Collection: School of Architecture and Built Environment   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 29 Jan 2009, 13:33:34 EST Wed, 05 May 2010, 14:49:52 EST Wed, 05 May 2010, 14:54:27 EST Wed, 05 May 2010, 15:07:33 EST Wed, 05 May 2010, 15:09:02 EST Wed, 05 May 2010, 15:17:29 EST Thu, 08 Jul 2010, 14:34:09 EST Thu, 08 Jul 2010, 14:35:07 EST Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 14:22:03 EST Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 09:24:14 EST Mon, 27 May 2013, 13:23:33 EST Mon, 03 Jun 2013, 17:20:39 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 765 Abstract Views, 2 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 07 Jul 2008, 09:43:35 EST

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