15 Oct 2019

Structural parts missing from many high-rise buildings

From Morning Report, 7:10 am on 15 October 2019

Building contractors under immense pressure are taking shortcuts and not putting critical structural parts into buildings properly, if at all. This evidence comes from a concrete scanning company that blames unworkably tight profit margins and a dearth of independent checks. Phil Pennington files the second of two reports on why so many buildings are not being constructed according to plan.