Are shoddy building practices consigned to the boom’s rubble?

Michael Clifford submitted a request to attend a forum today aimed at reviewing new building regulations but was declined. He explains that others from the meeting include consumer representatives and independent voices within the building industry. In addition, the ‘independent

GEORGE Bernard Shaw might have enjoyed a gathering that is taking place today in the Custom House, on the north bank of the Liffey. It was Shaw who suggested that “all professions are a conspiracy against the laity”, and while today’s gathering of professionals isn’t ostensibly a conspiracy, today’s laity is notably excluded from it.

The occasion is the first forum to review the new building regulations that were introduced just over a year ago. SI9 came about following revelations about the disastrous system of self regulation in the building industry through the years of bubble and plunder.