A conversation with the building commissioner David Chandler

摘要

David Chandler's first address to the architectural public was presented in Sydney last September with the title 'A conversation with the building commissioner', however it was the subheading that was, like the man himself, ambitious and direct. Simply put, it said: 'A strategy to make New South Wales Australia's state of construction by 2025, the biggest micro-economic reform in the construction industry to date.' The building commissioner explained what he saw as an 'industry crisis'. He sees the industry as having ridden up and over a 'peak of inflated expectations' and was plummeting towards a 'trough of disillusionment'. With the remit he has been given by the state government and the powers to act under the (still yet to be passed) Design and Building Practitioners (DBP) Bill 2019 introduced by the NSW minister for better regulation and innovation Kevin Anderson, the commissioner outlined his plan to bring the industry up to a 'plateau of productivity' by 2023.