Highrises a safety risk

GREEDY developers are “cutting corners” to save money and building shoddy highrise apartment towers, engineers have warned.

The nation’s professional engineering body, Engineers Australia, claims some building certifiers are signing off on substandard work, from structural defects to waterproofing, plumbing and fire safety.

“Multi-storey apartment buildings are being constructed that are not meeting the standards that the Australian public expects,” it has told a Senate inquiry into shonky building products.