{"id":392898,"date":"2019-01-15T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/engineers-disagree-on-whether-australian-high-rise-is-safe-to-reoccupy\/"},"modified":"2019-01-15T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T10:11:50","slug":"engineers-disagree-on-whether-australian-high-rise-is-safe-to-reoccupy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/engineers-disagree-on-whether-australian-high-rise-is-safe-to-reoccupy\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers disagree on whether Australian high rise is safe to reoccupy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Engineers disagree on whether Australian high rise is safe to reoccupy<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    John Wilson<br \/>\n    <br \/>15 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>While only two of the four engineers\u2019 have concluded it is safe to reoccupy the building, some residents have moved back in to Opal Tower, either voluntarily or because their hotels were cancelled by the builder. The engineers for the body corporate say they are waiting on further information before they can declare the building safe to occupy, while the New South Wales (NSW) state government only released its own assessment by three academic engineers today.<\/p>\n<p>The builder, Icon, told residents in a letter on January 10 that engineers WSP, who designed the building, and Rincovitch Partners, had both declared the building to be \u201cstructurally sound.\u201d No explanation was given, however, why a concrete panel on the 10th level of the 34-storey tower had cracked. The extent of temporary bracing that has been placed through a number of floors\u2014up to a hundred jacks, each of which can support ten metric tonnes are being used\u2014suggest that there are still concerns the building will continue to shift.<\/p>\n<p>Icon\u2019s letter stated: \u201cIt is entirely up to the residents whether they want to move in or not. Our view and the view of the engineers is that the building is safe to occupy.\u201d Residents have complained about the lack of information.<\/p>\n<p>A one page letter sent on January 11 by Cardno Engineering, who have been engaged by the body corporate, called for completion of the reinforcing and asked for further tests to \u201cconfirm finding of the non-compliant reinforcing in the precast on Level 10\u201d and whether the significant spalling is a \u201cone-off occurrence\u201d or a \u201csystemic problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NSW government report released today, which was prepared by Professors Mark Hoffman,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/15\/opal-j15.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Engineers disagree on whether Australian high rise is safe to reoccupy By John Wilson 15 January 2019 While only two of the four engineers\u2019 have concluded it is safe to reoccupy the building, some residents have moved back in to Opal Tower, either voluntarily or because their hotels were cancelled by the builder. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}