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.
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Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
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ISBN-13
979-8-9864918-2-0 (9798986491820)
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Schweitzer Classification
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. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
