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.
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Australia's residential building faults : a view from the state of Victoria
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
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