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A recent survey revealed that one of the most common Quality system issues that Australian contractors has is the struggle to get...

A partially constructed pedestrian bridge crossing an eight-lane roadway in the city of Miami collapsed killing 6 and injuring 10

building with compliant durable materials is key to surviving natural disasters

The NSW Building Commission, has compiled a Building Defects Library to help the industry move on from making the same mistakes over and ove

A 19-car train was crossing the railroad bridge crossing over Marys River near Avery Park on Saturday afternoon January 4 when it collapsed.

The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) invites you to attend their ABCB Forums.

BS 99001:2022 is a new British standard for quality management systems in the construction industry. 99001 is based on BS EN ISO...

Professor Love argues that a different approach is required to Construction Quality - Quality II

CQA Chairman looks at what Construction Quality Australia (the CQA) has achieved over the past twelve months.

This year's World Quality Week focus theme is: “QUALITY: realising your competitive potential”.

The water-shedding principal is that all parts of a building contribute to control water.

The CQA has developed a standard coding schema that the whole industry can use.

An investigation by Building and Energy into the mass failure of plumbing pipes used in hundreds of new homes in Perth

We all know the difference between Cause and Effect - or in the case of construction, cause and DEFECTS.

The Construction Industry's Prevention Action systems are all about risk-based up-front Planning.

Author: Tom Symonds, BBC Building regulations were "faulty and ambiguous" in the run-up to the Grenfell Tower fire, Housing Secretary...

Operating in a global market, large amounts of construction products and materials are sourced from overseas.

Residential housing built over the past three years will suffer from quality issues that will lead to litigation if the builders aren’t will

Black mould is being uncovered in the walls of defective apartment blocks, in what experts describe as an "absolute catastrophe".

Alarming footage from a 35-storey building on fire in Dubai has placed the spotlight on cladding on the outside of the residential apartment