Smart Researchers focus on Building Defects

The smart people at the City Futures Research Centre at UNSW have been looking at things affecting strata title buildings for a while now (and I’ve posted about some of that before).

So, far that’s included -

• Governing the Compact City
• Living Well in Greater Density 
• Managing Major Repairs in the Residential Strata Sector 
• The Demand for Higher Density Housing in Sydney and Melbourne 
• Social Outcomes of Residential development Sydney Olympic Park 
• The Costs and Provision of Community Infrastructure in Community Title Schemes in NSW 
• Fairfield City council: Research project on the profile of higher density housing in Fairfield

And, now they’re turning their attention to the perennial and serious problem of building defects in higher density buildings.


Defects cause many problems for strata buildings and strata owners.  Some of the problems are obvious and others less so.  And, the solutions are hard and getting harder.

So the City Futures Research Centre has issued a short issues paper to start more sophisticated thinking and develop solutions.  You can find the paper here.

This is only the beginning and it’s likely it will take a lot of thinking and effort by a lot of smart people to solve the building defects problem.

So, if you have experience of building defects (good or bad) and/or have ideas for improvements why not join the debate and let City Futures Research Centre know you experience, thoughts and ideas?  You can do so by email to –

See you in the defect free strata utopia of the future.

Francesco …