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Reading that post and having worked in various contractor roles in construction in Sydney over the last 5 or so years (concreting and general construction) none
by gtvwill 8y ago
Reading that post and having worked in various contractor roles in construction in Sydney over the last 5 or so years (concreting and general construction) none of what he is saying surprises me at all!
I came from construction out in the mines so OH&S and engineering inspections were quite literally our daily jam, moving to the construction industry for residential/commercial in Sydney I was blown away by what I saw!
We would quite literally have days where the site would be filled with teams of workers brought in on buses, mixtures of migrants from eastern europe (like bulk euro's) and parts of asia who would be PUMPING out the welding, concreting and general construction. The site would literally be buzzing with activity...then you would rock up the next day and the place would be near empty...jobs half done all over the place. Sometime during the empty days...the inspections would happen, be they OH&S or engineering or whoever else had to suss shit out to tick some boxes.
Point is, they would actively pull guys off site because these teams were dodgy as shit at working, I spent my days regularly just counting the OH&S breaches I witnessed. Hell I even called the asbestos investigation team on a company I worked for because the breaches were just too ridiculous for me to handle...nothing happened. Kents are still making their workers rip out asbestos with no protective gear and making a shit ton in profit because they dump it using businesses that dump it illegally. These are MBA registered businesses too, and don't even begin to think the MBA doesn't know this shit goes on regularly, its a large portion of their members participating in these acts. They are dodgy as hell.
/rant
- danieltillett 8y agoUnfortunately this all matches the stories my friends tell me :( For our US friends MBA is the Master Builders Assoiciation [0], not people with a Masters of Business Administration. 0. http://www.mbansw.asn.au/About/ http://www.mbansw.asn.au/About/
- EricE 8y agoIt happens in the US too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harmon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harmon At least they caught it before it was fully constructed, but it still cost almost as much to tear it down as it did to build!
- djmips 8y agoIn your wiki link it says the tear down was expected to cost $11.5 million which must be much lower than construction costs. (quick search says $275 million to build) In general it only makes sense that demolition is much cheaper than construction.
- rosege 8y agoI once had a dodgy builder doing work at my place (I didn't realise he was dodgy until it was too late). He had MBA stickers all over his van. I took some photos of it and sent it to them saying he was fraudulently using their name when not a member. Their response was well we can send him an application. Never mind that he had loads of fines and on-going investigations by fair trading.
- pstuart 8y agoShit like this is what wikileaks had promised us. Those businesses should learn the hard way why it should be cheaper to do it correctly.