TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dyer, Peter,
TI  - Rottenomics: the story of New Zealand's leaky buildings disaster 
SN  - 9781869539986
AV  - TH9031 .D94 2019
U1  - 363.5  
PY  - 2019///.
CY  - Auckland : 
PB  - David Bateman, 
KW  - Dampness in buildings
KW  - Buildings
KW  - Repair and reconstruction
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - Building laws
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Sarah -- 2. Blamefest -- 3. 
       Timber treatment: the fight and the resolution -- 4. The 
       strange story of untreated timber -- 5. Monolithic design 
       and materials -- 6. Building controls: discontent, 
       research, reports and a solution -- 7. Building Act 1991: 
       problems with the solution -- 8. At the coalface -- 9. 
       Milton and Jean Pedley: stranger than fiction -- 10. Lost 
       training, lost skills -- 11. Private building certifiers: 
       set up to fail -- 12. What's a clerk of works? -- 13. Who 
       took our money? -- 14. Confidentiality: information is 
       everything -- 15. The last man standing -- 16. Building 
       Performance Guarantee Act repeal -- 17. Local Government 
       Amendment Acts 1989 -- 18. Josie O'Donnell: under the 
       radar -- 19. Two reports and $47 billion -- 20. Leaky 
       buildings today -- Appendix: Estimating the watertightness
       cost as reported in Data on residential weathertightness 
       failures using Price WaterhouseCoopers methodology.
N2  - "For over a quarter century our building industry, economy
       and Government have failed to provide this basic guarantee
       : new buildings will not rot. Leaky buildings are the 
       result of an unfortunate confluence of industrial, 
       legislative, historical and cultural factors. Collectively,
       these elements stubbornly continue to defy a full and 
       final resolution. Featuring personal stories of homeowners
       faced with insurmountable repair costs of hundreds of 
       thousands to their 'dream home', often leading to sickness,
       depression and financial loss. And revealed for the first 
       time, withheld Government reports that estimate the total 
       cost of leaky dwellings at $47 billion. Rottenomics is an 
       engaging exposé into a national crisis that refuses to go 
       away."--Back cover.
ER  -