News & Updates

London’s former Olympic Village is facing a £432m fire safety bill after new defects were uncovered, its management company has said

The Victorian government has opened consultation on a proposal to introduce two additional mandatory inspections

Thirteen new housing designs have been commissioned for the New South Wales Housing Pattern Book,

What was supposed to be luxury high-rise living in the Financial District of NYC turned into a leaning tower.

A partially constructed pedestrian bridge crossing an eight-lane roadway in the city of Miami collapsed killing 6 and injuring 10

building with compliant durable materials is key to surviving natural disasters

The NSW Building Commission, has compiled a Building Defects Library to help the industry move on from making the same mistakes over and ove

A 19-car train was crossing the railroad bridge crossing over Marys River near Avery Park on Saturday afternoon January 4 when it collapsed.

The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) invites you to attend their ABCB Forums.

CQA Chairman looks at what Construction Quality Australia (the CQA) has achieved over the past twelve months.

This year's World Quality Week focus theme is: “QUALITY: realising your competitive potential”.

The water-shedding principal is that all parts of a building contribute to control water.

An investigation by Building and Energy into the mass failure of plumbing pipes used in hundreds of new homes in Perth

Author: Tom Symonds, BBC Building regulations were "faulty and ambiguous" in the run-up to the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary...

Residential housing built over the past three years will suffer from quality issues that will lead to litigation if the builders aren’t will

Black mould is being uncovered in the walls of defective apartment blocks, in what experts describe as an "absolute catastrophe".

Alarming footage from a 35-storey building on fire in Dubai has placed the spotlight on cladding on the outside of the residential apartment

Australian YMCI will lodge a $3 million security with the NSW government to guarantee the rectification work.

World Quality Week is an annual campaign celebrated by the CQI, which raises awareness of the quality management profession globally.

Many waterproofing issues stem from the fact it has traditionally been viewed in isolation from the broader building design.