Exclusive: The NSW Building Commissioner David Chandler has said the state's building crisis will two years to fix | MeganGorrey Mattonews Laura_R_chung Nigelgladstone
"We'll be in a much better position by 2022 once we've started to change the culture of the industry and get people back to what they should be doing."His comments come as emergency crews were called to Mascot Towers in the city's inner south on Thursday night, after reports a brick facade in one of the towers of the evacuated complex had split.
"If I can substantially reduce the incidence of [building defects] and ensure that's not what's coming through the pipeline – that to me is the most impactive thing we could do," Mr Chandler said.
"We've set up a framework for much clearer accountability of the parties. Until now that clarity hasn't been there," he said.Former NSW treasury secretary Michael Lambert, who led a landmark review into building regulations in 2015, said he had greater confidence in the most recent measures planned to rectify the shortcomings in building standards.
"For builders, that means professional indemnity insurance. It is about using that to try to put pressure on builders which are not up to standard," he said.The government abandoned an attempt to pass key legislation by the end of 2019, when it pulled its building reform bill from the NSW upper house as it faced defeat on significant changes proposed by Labor and the Greens.
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