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News today says they have let people back into the building, except for 51 apartments. I can't work out how in a high rise apartment building, there can be 51 unsafe apartments, but the rest are OK for occupation. I don't think I could sleep well if I lived either above or below 51 apartments that are structurally unsafe for occupation.citywatcher wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 8:27 pmA 33 storey apartment block in Sydney's Olympic Park was evacuated today after tenants reported loud " cracking noises " coming from the building .
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Evacuated again after a wbole wall collapsed in an ApartmentSBD wrote:News today says they have let people back into the building, except for 51 apartments. I can't work out how in a high rise apartment building, there can be 51 unsafe apartments, but the rest are OK for occupation. I don't think I could sleep well if I lived either above or below 51 apartments that are structurally unsafe for occupation.citywatcher wrote: ↑Mon Dec 24, 2018 8:27 pmA 33 storey apartment block in Sydney's Olympic Park was evacuated today after tenants reported loud " cracking noises " coming from the building .
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Yes, it’s only been occupied for a couple of months. I think the same developers and builders have done the other towers there too, not sure of any Chinese connections.rev wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 12:02 amThis is a newly built tower isn’t it? Is this the one that the company teamed up with a Chinese developer or was it merely financing? Kind of reminds me of the fiasco with the asbestos cladding from China from a couple years ago.
Surprising to see they let anyone back in so soon considering they said the building had moved 2mm and there were serious cracks on level 10.
Yeh I’d be moving out permanently.SBD wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:24 pmYes, it’s only been occupied for a couple of months. I think the same developers and builders have done the other towers there too, not sure of any Chinese connections.rev wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 12:02 amThis is a newly built tower isn’t it? Is this the one that the company teamed up with a Chinese developer or was it merely financing? Kind of reminds me of the fiasco with the asbestos cladding from China from a couple years ago.
Surprising to see they let anyone back in so soon considering they said the building had moved 2mm and there were serious cracks on level 10.
I was also surprised to let some people back in. It seems they only isolated the apartments on each level up one corner. I guess that shows confidence that corner won’t pull the whole building over.i don’t think I’d want to live in the next one along though.
Well that's where the construction industry needs to step up and reassure people that these are one off incidents to do with XYZ reasons, and not common place issues that arise.malyzajaczek wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:42 pmThis kind of news is dangerous for the building sector and those who develop apartment buildings. Today I read article on abc.net.au that not only the prices of apartments in opal tower are affected but it's having a cascade effect.If this kind of dangerous chatter continues it will make a lot of projects tank before they get off the ground in Adelaide and around Australia.
It's not the first project that had issues with cracking. Few of Adelaide's projects had issues too. One I didn't expect was the tram bridge on south road. I wonder what's next.
The tram bridge itself was fine. The problem appeared to be that the pedestrian/cycle bridge was cantilevered onto the ends of the supports, and then had huge throw screens/wind shelters added that introduced an unintended rotation force onto that section that had not been engineered for the extra load.rev wrote: ↑Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:35 amWell that's where the construction industry needs to step up and reassure people that these are one off incidents to do with XYZ reasons, and not common place issues that arise.malyzajaczek wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 12:42 pmThis kind of news is dangerous for the building sector and those who develop apartment buildings. Today I read article on abc.net.au that not only the prices of apartments in opal tower are affected but it's having a cascade effect.If this kind of dangerous chatter continues it will make a lot of projects tank before they get off the ground in Adelaide and around Australia.
It's not the first project that had issues with cracking. Few of Adelaide's projects had issues too. One I didn't expect was the tram bridge on south road. I wonder what's next.