{"id":245563,"date":"2022-09-26T04:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T02:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planradar.com\/?p=245563"},"modified":"2023-07-27T01:26:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T23:26:26","slug":"reducing-defects-in-construction-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planradar.com\/au\/reducing-defects-in-construction-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Identify, mitigate and solve: Reducing defects in construction projects"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dealing with a range of building defects on any construction project can be challenging, time-consuming, and costly<\/a>, especially if litigation is involved. However, there are proven, proactive steps that you can use through various project stages to reduce building defects and the risk of liability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are many reasons why construction projects go wrong. A range of factors can contribute to building defects, including poor planning, inadequate training, and inadequate quality control. Regardless of whether a defect is major or minor in nature, a problem remains: defects typically aren\u2019t discovered until long after completion of the work, and defending against defect claims can be a time-consuming (and expensive) task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To reduce the chance of construction defects<\/a> and the costly claims that can accompany them, quality assurance is an absolute must-have in all aspects of construction project design, build and operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What exactly is a construction defect?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Construction defects typically relate to a weakness in the building process, such as in the design, materials, or craftsmanship, which results in a failure in some component of the structure being produced and harms a person or part of the building (financial or otherwise). To put it another way, there must be all three of the following for there to be a construction defect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n