Improving building safety standards
“My work is illuminating effective legal ways to make our buildings safer”
The construction industry and its regulators are grappling with how to create effective regulations to ensure dwellings are built to keep their occupants safe.
Why this matters
People around the world are rightly shocked when the buildings we live and work in are found to have dangerous structural, ventilation or cladding problems. Yet, the complexity of the tasks and interests involved in the design, construction, maintenance and use of buildings can in fact make these sorts of problem inevitable.
Our impact
My research, underpinned by more than 25 years in practice as a construction lawyer and teacher, helps policymakers and industry bodies find the right balance between all of these considerations so as to more effectively frame the law regulating our vital construction industry and its work.
I am a member of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law (MCCL), which aims for excellence in research, teaching and engagement in all aspects of commercial law, policy and regulation.
The Centre draws together leading experts in programs in the subject areas of corporate law and financial regulation; construction law and commercial arbitration; consumer law and regulation; and tax law and policy, and across the broad field of commercial law.
In addition to my research in this field, I am Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law at Melbourne Law School.
Since we began teaching construction law in 2000, our construction law program has been a global leader enhancing learning and debate amonst lawyers and industry professionals.
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