I Reveal How Bentleigh East’s Construction Was Compromised by Engineering and Surveying Malpractice!
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
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You guys remember this video?
I Reveal How Bentleigh East’s Construction Was Compromised by Engineering and Surveying Malpractice!
We’ll check out what happens to the builder…
VBA suspends Waleed Khumra of Diamond Builders following complex investigation
The Victorian Building Authority (VBA) has immediately suspended builder Waleed Khumra following an investigation which uncovered more than 100 breaches of building laws.
Mr Khumra, the director of Diamond Builders Pty Ltd, has also been issued with a show cause notice foreshadowing disciplinary action in relation to 5 building projects in Bentleigh East, Canterbury, Chadstone and Hampton East.
The disciplinary action includes a statutory maximum disqualification from the industry for 3 years, the cancellation of his building registrations and cumulative fines totalling more than $200,000.
The breaches of the Building Act 1993, Building Regulations 2018 and the Domestic Building Contracts Act 1995, include:
- Failure to build as required and to have the relevant building permit;
- Failure to notify the relevant building surveyor that building work has been completed to a mandatory inspection stage;
- Failure to properly respond to written directions to fix building work;
- Demanding more than the progress payments allowed for under the Domestic Building Contracts Act; and
- Varying the terms of a major domestic building contract in a manner other than provided for by the Domestic Building Contracts Act.
The immediate suspension means Mr Khumra and Diamond Builders are banned from entering into any new building projects and have a limited time to attend their current construction sites to make them safe and ready for handover to a new builder.
Mr Khumra has the option to appeal the immediate suspension to VCAT within 28 days and also has the right to make submissions to the VBA within the same period, before a disciplinary outcome is determined.
This isn’t just a slap on the wrist-it’s a wake-up call to everyone in the building industry. Cutting corners isn’t just unprofessional, it’s dangerous and costly.
Khumra’s suspension is a reminder that if you don’t play by the rules, you won’t be playing at all.
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Video Description:
Dive deep with us into a disturbing investigation at a construction site in Bentleigh East, Melbourne, where we uncover a series of alarming structural and safety violations across seven triple-story townhouses. This video is more than just an inspection-it's a stark revelation about the pitfalls of current regulatory practices and the urgent need for reform in the construction industry.
🚧 Widespread Non-Compliance Uncovered: From inadequate framing and deteriorating materials to non-compliant installations, the faults we document expose not only the risks to future residents but also the glaring deficiencies in oversight by bodies meant to enforce building standards, such as the Victorian Building Authority (VBA).
🔍 A Closer Look at Regulatory Failures: We highlight how the Security of Payments Act ironically ensures builders get paid even for non-compliant work, further complicating accountability issues. Additionally, the video discusses specific disciplinary actions taken against a plumber involved in the project and outlines the penalties for non-compliance as stipulated by the Building Act.
📉 Demanding Accountability and Change: The story extends beyond pointing out flaws; it calls for a systemic overhaul. We argue for stricter enforcement of regulations and proper oversight to prevent such egregious missteps in future projects. The current lax environment not only jeopardizes safety but also undermines trust in the building industry.
💬 Join the Conversation: We need your voice in this critical discussion. Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments. Have you encountered similar issues? How do you think regulatory bodies should respond to such flagrant violations?
👍 Support Our Advocacy: By liking, sharing, and subscribing, you help amplify the call for necessary changes in the construction industry. Your engagement can drive awareness and foster a community that demands higher standards.
This video aims not only to inform and educate but also to mobilize viewers towards demanding better oversight and stricter enforcement in construction practices, ensuring safety and compliance are never compromised.
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LIKE > if you want a full exposé in detail about builder/rbs/engineer
@@Siteinspections would this be a Bonaventure group development site?
Absolutely abhorrent story regardless. Unscrupulous players in the industry should not just be held liable but barred/restricted from working in the industry ever again.
Good stuff as always big Z!
Yes. Expose it all mate. Phoenixing was apparently stopped so keen to see the truth of it
Your complaints are mainly after effects from exposure to environment, not base design. What's wrong with the structure. It looks like they've over supported in some areas? You can bleach the mould. You're complaining about the balcony and fire wall. The Chinese framing is a minor issue. It's not useless.
Absolutely 💯 %
@@JimmyCall errrr how about an under supported main beam- it’s not even fully on the foundation. Heck knows what else is there
Please be careful bro. Theres alot of shady dudes that would prefer the light stays away from their bs.
This is a harmless comment which should not trigger the RUclips WrongThink bot.
@@PartTimeLaowaii think he is referring to people within the industry who resort to unacceptable practices, including violence, extortion, etc.
@@gabriellethomas7489that would be the CFMEU
@@PartTimeLaowai he is talking about the mafia that's in the industry my man
@@yommmrr thinking the same thing
Council will pick at everything you do to your property yet these big construction companies get away with everything
That's a really good point, council used to have the job of house inspection before it was opened up to shonky charlatans employed by the builder, which is conflict of interest all day. Now council inspectors' only job is to pester the owner/resident and squeeze them for cash over every tiny thing they do or put on their own property. If the state put in a fraction of the energy councils do in fleecing residents for fines on the most pointless of things; into forcing building inspectors to do their basic job properly, nobody would be decieved into living in a leaky, mouldy deathtrap or paying to repair the badly built building themselves ever again.
Most Council's today don't employ Building Surveyors. It's the responsibility of the body that registers the individual or identity to ensure that unprofessional activity doesn't occur. If proven there is unprofessional conduct, the registered party can be removed so they can't work in that field, bring financial costs against the individual, supervise all their work and / or enforce the unprofessional party to undertake further education to ensure all professional and legal requirements are meet.
I can't register my car without a qualified and certified mechanic not only checking it out, but taking photos of everything because they are held accountable by the government (VicRoads) if they don't do it right and they lose their certification and if they've been bad enough, their registration. I don't have to live in my car. I don't expect to own it in 20 years. I didn't pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for it, and yet the standards with which it and the inspector must comply are clearly being upheld with far more gravity and significance than these constructions. The distance between these two things is mind blowing.
Every other industry but house construction pretty much, will hold the provider to basic contract law and throw the book at them to protect the client.
Absolutely, more scrutiny on a car repair than building a home, total BS 😡😡
this all started when we had a building shortage, and the government threw money into programs, can say i went threw one, frankly the training was piss poor, i know fuck all to compared to what i should, but enough to look through houses being built atm and able to notice all the shot cuts going on, the shower in my house wasn't sealed correctly, so now i gotta find time to rip out the base, and replace sections of the wall surrounding the shower...
oh fyi i'm a qualified builder technically, i could do the job but i don't know enough that i'd do it as work and at my point i'd have to retrain but most of those that went through the failure the training was are currently working, now 15 to 20 years of ingrained bad habits.
my "instructor" ripped off chunks of his finger changing a router blade
Well said, total MADNESS
the difference is, there is BIG money in real estate, and some politicians are allowing this shit to happen because they are getting their kickbacks.
I grew up here and remember this address used to be a "Not Quite Right" supermarket.. seems like it's still NQR
... it use to be a doctors clinic in a small house
The NQR was across the road, where another multi-storey complex was built some years ago. This place was a single storey accountant's or Lawyers office.
😂
The NQR was a Jewel Supermarket, which moved out the back and became the IGA. There was a cop shop at the back of this lot, facing E Boundary Rd.
I lived at the corner of St George avenue and centre road …just to add to the list of shops Australia post at the corner funeral place in the adjoining street …I lived there 30 years ago…
The way the lawyer answered the phone😂
You can tell he was thinking "oh fuck, what now"
Hahaha true
Registered Structural Engineer here, practising in Australia but not Melbourne. Couple of thoughts:
1) The design is very architectrual. Cantilevers like that may look good but are often a nightmare to actually make workable.
2) That frame is stuffed. Absolutely stuffed. I was watching the video and checking out the main structural framing in the background and it appears under-designed. The cantilevers could have been made functional if the engineer treated them as the bottom chord of a cantilevered truss but that doesn't appear to be the case. It looks like the engineer has cantilevered the floor beams and provided some modest back-bracing, little wonder it was flexing and needed additional struts installed (poorly) by the Builder.
3) The engineer likely specified that the steel stud-framing was to be consistent with the NASH standards - this cannot occur when you get your frames in from overseas. It is common engineering practice to "handball" steel stud-frame design to a manufacturer (Rondo, for example) as it is quite specialised and they have their own in-house engineers. The Builder has likely gone on Alibaba and just bought a container-load of frames with no further input.
4) What is up with the floor frame?! How close does he want his floor trusses?!?! The way to design this properly would be to have a beam at the edge of the balcony so you can run your joists the short direction and minimise deflections. Internally it looks like a long span but at 300c/c or 450c/c spacing it should have been workable. Dunno what is going on with the mixture of different floor trusses at "whatever we want" spacing.
5) I would, personally, fail all of the welded-on hanger brackets. The heat from the welding has likely affected the material properties, it's not that hard to use series 500 Tek screws like the manufacturer states??
6) Don't get too caught-up in the earthquake thing. AS1170.4 is a joke compared to overseas earthquake codes, AS1170.2 (the wind code) produces far worse loading in my experience. That said, I'm used to designing in Region D wind and Cat 5 cyclones so my perspective is skewed - in any case this structure is only poking it's nose into AS1170.4 and "gut feel" says AS1170.2 is a more determining factor for loads on this structure
So how to fix all this?? Governments need to take the progress inspections back into government departments. The great experiment of private certifying needs to end, it creates this awkward situation where the Builder/Engineer/Surveyor are all somewhat reliant on each other for ongoing business and the lines of responsibility gets blurred. The only way to fix that would be to get the government to conduct progress inspections to ensure compliance in a completely independent manner. Never going to happen and until then, it's only a matter of time before this type of thing occurs again.
Cheers for your input, was good to see what an actual engineer thinks of the frame and cantilever decks. For me and a lot of the laymen in the comments, the things that really jumped out as just looking wrong and offending common sense, were the deck floor trusses being randomly doubled up and squeezed in laterally instead of at right angles to the side where they would have had a snowflakes chance of spreading the weight to the ground and those awful, pigs breakfast floor truss bracket welds that have clearly been designed to be screwed/bolted on.
@@wobblyboost No worries, any good engineer will always listen to gents like yourself any day. I tell my team that if it looks wrong, it *IS* wrong.
This job is definitely a pig's breakfast, you got that right😂
seismic loading on a light steel structure would be very low due to its strength vs weight ratio.
@@Myth-of-sisyphus seismic actions are a function of the structural mass and heights of those masses. Depending on the structure, it's inertia, fundamental frequency and a variety of other factors, lightweight framing can have considerable seismic loading. It is erroneous to state "lightweight construction means low seismic loads"
@@Chickenhawk6451 i agree with the seismic vs wind comment, even in the lower wind regions seismic is almost never the critical load. I would be a little concerned for this build though, as the front openings appear to have little bracing walls.
All inspections should be video recorded.
Absolutely, it shows the client what the inspector sees and gives the client a recorded inspection for their records
@@267BISMARK good idea for sure.
Why do governments ignore these problems
Government IS the problem
because no one cares, simple as that
@@steveg7378 was it better before covid struck.
Because they protect each others dodgy work
Follow the money
Happening more often than you'd think, and for decades now, "Builder"/Developers also using lower graded, soil reports, 10000 officially, but more like 14000 homes in Melton found to be experiencing structurally damaging, slab heave. Or improperly supervised, excavation and slab construction. Bad foundations setting up dangerously built Homes from the start! Very expensive to fix! Building Warranty Insurance last resort instead of first, and so many outs, judged a Junk Product by Choice. So much bad building going on, in 2006 alone, 300000 cases thru VCAT, so takes years, and hence, the delay in bad practitioner's being listed/consumers warned. And consequences for bad, read criminal, builders? Perhaps, minimal payouts, and at worst cessation of business, or just claim bankruptcy, but just start again in someone else's name, meanwhile $6 Billion Loss to Home Buyers. Committing Theft by deceptive business practice, ie. Criminal Fraud! Should be Jailed!
VBA should be accountable 😢
@@palikiridena2796 what about council?
They just robbery for stealing millions off dollars with projects horrible jobs what they do
@@Bigred-ie1nkthey should put a building notice on the owner of the land.
Dodgy to the max, thanks for exposing these clowns
Private certification has become a total nightmare. Council doesn't care a toss. And the VBA takes literally years to make a decision. This is the experience I'm having with my neighbors property which does not comply with planning rules. Victoria is broken.
protect this man at all costs
The scary thing about the engineer is that he _taught_ engineering for _12 years,_ including 5 years at Monash Uni. He has _protégé._ They are out certifying builds themselves now.
Like Bruce poofcoe and his claims about Aboriginal farming, here he is, claiming to be Aboriginal, and his farm is going bankrupt.
@@jamesaustralian9829WTF does that have to do with a building inspection? Vent your hate on a relevant channel
@@jamesaustralian9829 Wrong video dude. Always check your playlist hasn't advanced you to the next video before you launch into some video-specific rant...
@@RiffRaffMama.he's too old to comprehend that, let him chill in his retirement home
Lollllll @@jamesaustralian9829
This job reminds me of a job on Daoncaster Road Doncaster East, very recently builder requested rough in, I refused and said it cant be done due to no external cladding and clear ingress of water. Called Energy Safe Victoria to which they said your good to go. Ok not making sense to me, how do we rough in cabling that will get wet & highly likely corrode and cause problems down the track. So I contact cable supplier who replied with their warranty terms which in that stated that cables are to be stored & installed only in water tight areas and that in the case they werent warranty will be void.
So my question is what is ESV doing? How can they say your good to go when the manufacturer clearly wont warrant their products based on cabling getting wet. And keeping in mind that the cabling is not designed or manufactured for wet areas & inside the cabling there is a powder which keeps seperation of the inner cores while under duress, this would be broken down also.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY & REGULATORS :(
Further to this the builder said we will be plastering without any cappings on the roof, I said there will be water, yes but minimal amount.....WHAT!!!!!
And this is the absolute scum building our buildings, ripping off customers & destroying lives. Makes me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!
The entire building industry is filled with cowboys because there’s no one around to keep them accountable, no clear government body to report dodgy practices by customers or employees.
A former friend has a building company in Melbourne, his previous company went bankrupt for multiple reasons, he worked cash in hand while being on centrelink for a few years and then restarted another company. I’ve seen this guy stuff rubbish into people’s walls, charge for time he didn’t work and embezzle building materials on top of a list of other dodgy things because there’s no one checking on him.
shemozzle = a state of chaos and confusion; a muddle.
- Is the homeowner able to claim against the engineers professional negligence insurance?
- Did the local city review buildings plan before permitting?
The Australian construction industry is beyond fixing and it's a very complex set of circumstances how it came to this point, however top of the list was allowing the residential property market to become a haven for property investors from both within and outside Australia.
I am a retired bricklayer, and I have several family members still working in various trades in the industry and I would never buy a property built off-plan and would hesitate to buy any property built in the las decade or so, period
Following years of interest rate manipulation by global central banks, leading to mal-investment across the board, I wouldn't be invested in property under any circumstances with what is coming over the next 5-7 years.
" .. top of the list was allowing the residential property market to become a haven for property investors .. "
True, all of that post.
I don't hear any of the rent seeker 'investors' suffering from excess rent demands, nor the filthy Real Estate arseholes who have a vested interest in pumping up prices.
Housing affordability took a dive during the Howard era by decreasing CGT for the beloved rent seekers.
How ironic that Howard's 'battlers' have it so much worse now.
When I'm building electronics devices or repairing things I get worries if I'm left over with a single screw by the end. These builders were left over with 2 full houses of structural frame by the looks of the piles of steel frame sitting about everywhere! :O
I can feel your exasperation ,, you honestly care . Not to mention the owners,,how much are those poor buggers out of pocket? A lot of people can never recover from disasters like this. This level of construction corruption combined with the cmfeu being infiltrated by criminals needs a royal commission investigation. If not we will see an unraveling of everything. Anyway cheers bro we need more guys like you .
As a chartered member of Engineering Australia, I would approach them for advice on this building. Engineers Australia has enormous integrity and would sanction any engineer on this type of behaviour. I note the individual is no longer living but nonetheless, I am still sure they would want to know the details.
@ianpilbeam1948 Tim Gibney Associates not the individual engineer only. Companies should have QA practices before stuff gets signed off. If a senior engineer doesn't know the requirements of as1170.4 then someone in the company should be validating reg126 before they go out! It's not hard to get practitioner number if your employer insures you and you get a written letter stating you're qualified from your employer.
"the individual is no longer living"
I wonder if he's enjoying his kickbacks wherever he is.
Man if I knew you were in my suburb I would have come down to meet and stand guard for you. Love your work
Builder and engineer must have been in cahoots with each other. It's all a total scam.
That was the case on my upstairs addition. Some dodgy engineering coupled with signing off on NCC-breaching work.
and probably Glen Eira council aswell.
The Council is nothing but a bunch of crooks.
old units built 100 years ago are still standing with no defects
That’s nothing what about the Roman ruins still standing.
@Reptilianoverlord-jc8mt your right even the Babylonians had a law that if a builder built a structure for someone and it collapsed then the builders own house would be demolished.
That is survivorship bias, nothing more. You only see the ones left standing, the rest collapsed. Same with roman ruins, 99% were buried and collapsed. The 1% remaining just lucked out, you would see the same thing even with standards as low as they are in this video.
Construction and organized crime have been in bed for decades. Stay safe mate your doing amazing work
Thank you for exposing the shmozzle. I really feel for the homeowner
I live right next to it, in 734 Centre road. There hasn't been any work going on in this site since February as far as I remember. Sad to see it is abandoned now, saw you too on the day of filming, wasn't aware of you or your channel unfortunately.
The thing that really gets me is the obscene waste of resources on top of absolute negligence.
And other peoples money', I wonder what it has been used for?
the core of these issues is government negligence, literally tens of thousands of public servants that sit around doing busy work day in day out and do nothing of value.
Yup.
Beg to differ. Being a ex public servant I took my job very seriously as lives depended upon it. No I can't speak for everyone but I wish people would stop blaming us. We swear a oath to serve the citizen not the government, not corporations. When you hear a politician say they want smaller government it means to get rid of public servants and employ contractors and allow lobbyists to encourage several forms of corruption which ends up feathering the financial nests of said politicians. I have served the Citizens of Australia in several aspects of government service. I will leave you with this thought. "Nothing is as it seems" Unknown.
@@johnguerra2172 there are exceptions and it is usually on the frontline of government services. I've also worked in the public service both as APS and consultant, most people never question why they are doing what they are doing and as a result thousands of people are sitting around doing work that adds no value. The APS is also increasingly not a-political as it is supposed to be. Staff obfuscate and go slow on anything they don't agree with, there is an attitude of if we just drag this out as long as we can it won't be a priority anymore, the budget will run out, someone will change their mind or the government will change etc. It's a shockingly poor culture that isn't tolerated in most private enterprise
Things are only going to get worse right across Australia as the pressure increases to quickly produce more housing. The only people to really lose out are the home owners who pay out their life savings or take on a large mortgage to end up owning nothing. Honest, reliable builders will be forced out of the business by cheaper cowboy 'builders' who take their money and run. Pursuing builders to fix defects can take years and cost thousands in legal fees and professional inspections. Local councils and governments decide on policies and regulations then leave compliance up to the builders to enforce upon themselves and possibly 'pay off' engineers and inspectors. Something has to be done to put a stop to this disasterous and dangerous schemozzle of a building industry. Why is it even still possible or legal for non-compliant materials to be available on the market? Should builders be required to sit a test on Building Regs before being allowed to practice as a builder?
@Siteinspections with all my hearth, don't stop doing what you are doing. You are actually putting the seeds on change to a better australian living. This has to change. I truly believe you deserve a medal! And by the way, I will keep you in mind when the times come to buy my own house, you are well woth every penny!
People should be totally terrified to build a house these days. there is no protections for the owners at all it seems
That law seems like a massive scam in the favour of the legal system
Damn I live in Bentleigh, used to live in Bentleigh East and bought and sold in each, this stuff is everywhere, I have my own stories. Thanks for coming this side man.
I used to live in East Bentleigh as well. What a sad, gentrified, sterile place it has become.
That whole area is a cesspit. From Clayton to St Kilda.
@@bt3411 the area from bentleigh and surrounding like Elstwrnwick, McKinnon, Brighton, Elwood etc are beautiful spots to live. Very blessed to own a lovely home bayside. Love it. Spoilt by poor builds.
@@RiffRaffMama. it's a lovely spot and really glad its changing, out with the old and in with the new.
It's gut wrenching to see this building defects, there's so many shifty builders and engineers in the building industry. We need you to expose all of them ! keep up the great work !!
I live around the corner from this place and thought something was wrong looking at the frame alone. You can see the joins whilst walking down Centre Road and truth be told I'd trust TAFE students to do a better job. Appalling.
Great vid! Would love a detailed vid on how buyers can manage this type of non-compliant risk. For example are there any strategies legal or otherwise to mitigate the risk associated with the builder using the security of payments act to be paid for non-compliant works. Going through a painful defects process at the moment so can relate to the frustration of asymmetric advantage given to builders and developers by the regulators. Honestly feels like we are constantly confronted with making the least worst decisions absent any sense of justice.
Only remedy is forcing the court to enforce financial contract law, which trumps building code outright. If the builder has broken contract in that the house is uninhabitable, structurally unsound or will become so, the client has every right to withold payment, that's why we have contracts in the first place. Breaching a financial contract is a criminal offence and can not be vetoed by codes and statutes.
Security of Payment does not apply to domestic building contracts. Read your contract about final payment and the procedures that apply.
Employ a company that does what Site Inspections does. Get an independent, third party inspection done on each stage of the build prior to paying progress claims. Insist that these inspections be written into the contract as being authorised by the builder.
I bought a house from 1974. And have had no problems 👍
I live across the road, I was wondering why I haven’t seen tradies for a while
Should tell the council that there's a distinct smell of non-compliance coming from it. 😁
I have a friend who’s a builder. He said he’s seen extremely bad work done on his sites over the past couple of years that has had to be re-done. His advice is not to build a house now or in the medium-term future.
Possibly Temu steel
Sorry to say but that's funny funny funny 🤣🤣🤣 Les from Perth
Hey mate I have a serious question for you. You obviously see shamozzles left right and centre and you know what your looking at, have you ever inspected older homes from +100 years ago. Theres alot of old buildings all over the place and how they built these structures does not make sense if we are meant to be more advanced today. This includes old cathedrals. Double skin brick, perfect allignment and grandiosity but yet we feel the need to put "expansion" joins everywhere and chuck some sika in there. What do you think boss? And obviously transferring any weight downwards, these foundations must be huge
Coming soon 😊
Many of these are simply luck, and massively over engineered (IE- pay 1000x more for a building, and you can get something like this right now). Look up survivorship bias. You see the 1% that remained, the other 99% collapsed. (AND many of these buildings have required constant maintenance this entire time as well, or they would be collapsed as well)
No way in hell I would have made any payment for this.
They were forced to, genius
@@hedonist2104 Garbage comment...
@hedonist2104 youd have moreluck being firced to court
@@MrDeano-eu9rg certainly not personally.
@@MickH60 how so? They probably had the funds in escrow and the builder convinced them to release it
I dont think the plumber was fined at all. It just appears to be a direction to pay the costs of the inquiry.
Please tell me in Australia any Builder go to prison for 5 years or prefer to go back to his country with money?
Just when you think Victoria can't be more of a shithole, you prove us wrong.
so is NSW
this shit is literally nationwide.
@@JadedOriana The importation of "Trades" from foreign lands doesn't bring them up to Australian standards it brings us down to theirs, don't buy a house that was built in the last 20 years.
@@nickhutt6264 it isn't the importation, Ive worked in trades too many people just want a quick buck
It is not just the builders who are corrupt - nearly all our politicians and bureaucrats are working for a foreign power and these problems exist because they are not working for Australians.
Mr Site Inspection, your right on mate, dodgey politicians, dodgey trade unions, dodgey builders, dodgey inspectors, dodgey engineers, wow man Victoria's got it all, scooped the pool, what a SCHEMOZZLE!
I live in East bentleigh and watched this from when it started.
Something was wrong from when they started the foundations. looked non-professional.
Plus, the flooring has been open to elements.
Plus, at the entrance the angle square steel that has been welded to support the first floor is an after thought to stop the start of the domino effect of the upper levels collapsing.
TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE BUILD.
TO FIX THIS START AGAIN.
VBA,MBA WHERE ARE YOU
Corruption on so many levels is mind boggling. How do these people sleep at night and look at their families faces. It is sooooo sad that the owners always suffer from these corrupt cold people. Somebody needs to go through the whole building industry and overhaul and send some of them to jail....
That is ridiculous where is the accountability for these problems on projects like this 😮😮😮
There's an old saying: "You can't do a good deal with a bad person." Unfortunately the developer got involved with a dodgy builder & engineer.
I’ll be engaging with you and Bastian Legal when I build here in Melbourne in a year or two.
Cheers Zeher and Dean
🤙🏾
Didn’t think you could weld light gauge steel joist hangers. My understanding is it should have been fixed back with series 500 or proper plate steel cleats connection to the PFC
Conclusion don't build in VIC (the whole building industry is get rich quick scam) just buy older homes that was built back in the days with quality in mind.
Not true, you just need to know how to protect yourself and the quality of people you are engaging.
No matter where you build in Australia, watch your back- the country is full of cowboy builders and surveyors.
1st year apprentices do better work than this! How do they get away with it??? People should be going to jail!!
"Security of Payments Act" for supplies and build works, is our enemy and no one should sign a build contract in 2024 as system corrupt 😢
Laws need to change. It's as simple as that.
It's obvious that the companies financing these projects have no skin in the game. If they did they would be cutting off the financing long before reaching this stage of complete disaster. What the hell is going on?
Yeah. This is a big problem I see. The mortgage holder is taking no responsibility for handing out the money on progress payments. They are hand in glove with the rest of the corruption happy to take the builders inspectors sign off for releasing payments. You would think they would be sending their own inspectors out to verify it when they are the ones taking on the risk... in theory. In practice they get the money from the poor homeowner, or their insurance so they dont care.
@@stuartlaird7341 Right? After the 2009 crash some unidentified third party (in the USA) is supposed to access the value that the banks use to base the home loan on ( formerly the banks did it). I think it's all just window dressing. The lawyers still seem to draw up the contracts for big projects so the loan people never take the fall. And the mortgage companies still make loans on new/old turds. 30% of commercial property is empty in the USA. For now, they shuffle the books so they still appear solvent....for now. Ha Ha.
@@stuartlaird7341 Got it, in theory... IDK , seems like a shell/shill game. Probably need to spend $20k on a contract with contingencies for $1mill home to be safe, and spend $20k on inspections for every stage of construction, holy cow.
Oh but the Cmfeu is the only thing corrupt in the building industry? This is fascinating
No one holds VBA accountable
My companies brand new office building in South Melbourne has all the windows starting to crack, shit like this has you questioning the buildings safety
I cannot take my eyes off this DRAMA - blow by blow - (Even when I go to the lavatory - I can’t stop watching.)
The reason for this accumulation of serious structural defects is NOT the hope of saving MILLIONS of dollars - but is merely a desire on the part of the tradie to get home one hour earlier - or to get to the next job sooner - a desire to save a few hundred dollars - or a desire to earn a few hundred extra dollars this week.
This is not BIG greed - this is LITTLE greed - PENNY PINCHING - resulting in a STRUCTURAL DEFECT!
Cashflow is the life blood of the corruption industry.
Hey man love your work. Been doing the same stuff you have for 6 years. It’s really disappointing that the builders, engineers, serveyors and council seem to get away with it. Where do we go from here The industry is going to turd.
Victorian Hero! Love the videos, and thanks for the work you do to expose all the poor/corrupted businesses/people in the industry.
Imagine all the shoddy builds if the government manages to build tens of thousands of homes every year.
This is whay you get when you alow an industry to self regulate its self
I’m glad we still have wood to build with in the US. That metal framing looks like what we’d throw in the dumpster.
The building industry is a dumpster fire in the States as well.
OMG, how can these builders get a lincence
Corruption obviously.
Actually the Australian system may be OVER regulated in that there are so many laws telling you how to negotiate the construction-and the laws are then flawed and not executed. In the US while we also have permits and inspections, the system of payouts is independently structured through private contracts between the owners and builders. These contracts are often modeled or directly applied from standard contracts from organizations such as the American Institute of Architecture. The state isn’t involved in the contract or how it is executed, other than general contract laws.
nah this stuff is also happening in the States as well, I can't remember the name but there is also at least one inspector in states doing this kind work over there.
@cyfyhomeinspections is the inspector in the states I was talking about.
WOW, that building is beyond saving. Problem is no one is holding the people who should be checking responsible at every step of the way. No one cares basically, and like you stated, the penalties are usually a little slap on the wrist if caught. From the government all the way down to the builder. Prior to any payments being made, the work carried out should be checked and certified as being in compliance. (Codes are met, materials are up to standards etc.) The work carried out is what it should be at that stage.
I love the Health and Safety Plan on the fence! "I'm not addicted 2 drugs! i just really really like the taste of them". 😵💫
We have blue scope steel then Ali baba steel😂😂…🤦🏻♂️
Thanks for shining a light on these issues, this build is so atrociously done.
Love your work mate keep it up, let's bring these criminals to justice!
Its not just the VBA
The VSBA is also rife with shemozzle. Overpaid, lazy and does not contribute anything towards a building process rather takes a hefty percentage for "PM Fees".
Love that there are professionals appearing in the comments sharing their educated comments on what they see
Those mould stop panels with mould on them is kinda ironic
Clearly the mold was wandering through and stopped on that panel. Works as designed!
Local Councils use to be responsible for all building inspections and there was a lot of good ones...
Kennett stuffed it by privatising inspectors
They still have a responsibility to ensure compliance however just like everything else in VIC, they lie and support the big builds because it adds $$$ for local council. They use “planning” requirements as an excuse. What even more wonderful is when they accept plans for new boundary fences that they should not be allowed to include as part of a new build without the adjoining neighbours agreement. This is ignored! I’ve had full on arguments in behalf of a relative with a boorondara council inspector who blatantly lied to us and approved elements of a new build that did not even have an adjoining site assessment. They took advantage of an elderly woman who lost all personal private space because of breaches to BC! Our only option was court that would require $$$.
True, but the media continually made out like it was too slow so politicians saw an opening and changed the law knowing it would open the floodgates for their dodgy mates.
@@blackburneflw Councils are not goverment even thou they act like it.
@@angeloattard2709 they are absolutely government?
Maybe re inspect builders prior work…
I love your work mate…you are a super hero mate
Thank you so much 😀
Thats a knock down rebuild.
💔 for the poor owners!
Who puts floor trusses that close together? They knew that they were over-spanned or substandard fabrication.
Common sense tells you at a glance that it's insane, in a cantilevered deck; the weight of the extra trusses negates the point of adding them.
Would be the latter. The trusses are probably even worse then they expected and immediately started sagging badly under normal spacing. Importation of these things should be illegal.
First time watching and I'm stunned at how is this possible ? I'm without words to express my feelings.
Here in Canada, if there were this many defects and noncompliant issues such as the steel beams and cross members that had no identification certificates, and if a building like this were to be erected with so many defects and it legally failed every inspection, it would be torn down in order to be redone properly. Cowboys are the reason as many have stated here that so many projects have become dangerous domiciles with no foreseeable futures. I've watched over ten videos of your inspection routine and I was amazed at how they got away with it for so long. As some suggest there is big business in shuffling the cards so to speak at how far a building's deficiencies can be hidden for so long. The VBA and other entities are to blame simply because it's big money through bribery, collusion, and poker nights with the one's with the deep pocketed politicians. No house, no apartment, no bungalow, or even a garage would have passed just by the ducting alone which was shoddy work to begin with. In Canada, such work after a failed inspection would have resulted in severe fines and possible imprisonment. Yet, to be fair, we too have shady characters who are neck deep in shit because of malpractice suits and bad construction work. It's all about the money. Nothing more and nothing less. Bankruptcy in the construction business is number eleven on the list of failed businesses because of their bad practices. Once they file, they start over under a new name and troll the public looking for more victims.
Would be great if there was a government register of every builder and the level of non compliance at all of their jobs.
If school teachers have to put up with it; these builders can too.
What a mess
The quality of the welds is good as the chicken experiment.
it brings to mind the expression "thoes who can weld do and thoes who can't grind"
To solve these ongoing scenarios, inspections need to be done often and on a regular basis, you can't rock up at the 11th hour and find all the defects at the end when it's too late. Work should not be proceeding unless the prior stage is satisfactory. I have no clue of the industry and still know better. This in a modern country is a disgrace.
Inspections are done "on a regular basis" - there are stages of the build at which another inspection has to be conducted by law. Work is not meant to proceed until the prior stage is satisfactory. This only works when properly skilled, attentive and non-corrupt people are performing the inspections, as they are meant to be. This is the problem - the VBA is turning a blind eye to the fact that these essential legal obligations are not being upheld.
Wonder if we could get a contract that states “payment on completion of compliant works” or similar?
The behavioural pattern of the system we live in, is that of a psychopath.
Yep, do a more in-depth video about this project please. What a scam... just unbelievable! How can someone force a payment through the court when it’s clear without even stepping onto the site that it is so defective? …And what if the builder goes bust tomorrow, than what?
This is confusing and scary to me. Isn’t the builder scared the fkn house is gonna collapse or some shit?
Maybe first few times they did this they were scared, but now greed for money is stronger, dark side is appealing to the simple minded
This is the most exciting DRAMA on TELEVISION!
That welding looks like I did it lol.
As a welder I make a good photographer 🤣
I didn’t even know it was allowed to weld what looks like hangers designed for lumber onto steel truss joists. I don’t think they could have done much more wrong on this whole build. The idea that it can somehow be “fixed” is absurd. As an engineer, even without knowing Australian standards, it’d take me one look to say “yeah, this whole thing must be torn down to dirt”. It’s informative to look at every individual thing that is wrong, but the vibe of the whole site just screams corner cutting and zero professional integrity. Sites that look like this from across the street rarely have buildings that can be fixed.
@@absurdengineering Some gaffer tape and silicone and she'll be right mate 🤣
@@garysheppard4028And twine. You forgot about twine!! 😂
Bloke talking to the dead guy , had me 😂
It would be great to get a series if episodes, a bit like Kitchen Nightmares, go back and follow up on a good number of inspections you've done and what the fixes were, how the second "handover" went.
Utterly shocking that the national & state governments turn a blind eye to this continuing scandal. Corrupt regulation is worse than no regulation at all.
Thank you for the work that you do!!!
Blessings!!
As a 30 year experienced Engineer. I have occasionally seen poorly designed and built structural framing that has been 'passed'. However, duty of Care under the Wrongs Act 1958 makes the certification irrelevant. If it is not compliant with the code......