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Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry David Oswald

Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry By David Oswald

Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry by David Oswald

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Summary

Through evidence-based research and international case studies, this book focuses on the effects that dangerous defects have on the housing consumer.

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Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry: Cracks, Cladding and Crisis in the Residential Construction Sector by David Oswald

  • Thousands of buildings have also been identified with flammable cladding, many landlords and renters will have had financial challenges which have resulted from this or other similar defects issues and could relate to this book.
  • This book is contemporary, unique as it focuses the latest significant built environment issues, and is relevant to a wide range of readers, including construction and property management discipline students, government policy makers, construction and property professionals and general consumers.

Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry Reviews

The implications of this book are profound. The authors argue for strengthening consumer protection. From my perspective, dangerous defects arise from poor regulation or poor exercise of regulated powers on industry practices, design and materials. This rich and challenging research by Oswald and Moore demonstrates the need to build well and the wider consequences of not doing so. The book deserves to be read and discussed widely within industry, government, and civil society. It can help to initiate change by understanding the social and economic costs to society of dangerous defects. The nature of these changes implies a radical rethink is needed: clarity on oversight and monitoring, responsibilities, regulation, enforcement, and recourse/resolution when things go wrong. Kay Saville-Smith (CRESA, Aotearoa NZ) in Buildings & Cities Journal

About David Oswald

Dr. David Oswald is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Program Manager in the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University in Australia. He is a journal editor, reviewer, and PhD examiner and has written multiple award-winning academic publications within construction and the built environment. His recent combustible cladding research with Dr. Moore was used in Victorian parliament (Australia) to demonstrate the need for improving homeowner consumer protection.

Dr. Trivess Moore is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Property, Construction and Project Management at RMIT University in Australia. His research relates to housing quality and performance and focuses on the intersection between technical performance, liveability, social impact, and policy. In addition to recent work with Dr. Oswald on combustible cladding, he has been undertaking research looking at retrofit and the circular economy in Australia.

Table of Contents

1. Cracks, cladding and crisis in the residential sector, 2. Building defects: considering the human cost, 3. Homeowner vulnerability: dangerous defects, 4. The real cost? Well-being implications for the consumer, 5. Corporate social responsibility for the consumer, 6. Dealing with dangerous defects in multiple occupancy developments, 7. Navigating landlord-tenant conflicts, 8. Government support during times of crisis, 9. Designing and building better for the housing consumer, 10. Conclusions

Additional information

NLS9781032007311
9781032007311
1032007311
Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry: Cracks, Cladding and Crisis in the Residential Construction Sector by David Oswald
David Oswald
Social Value in the Built Environment
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-06-10
184
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