Shutterstock May 25, 2021 War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious James Lesh, The University of Melbourne and Cameron Logan, University of Sydney NSW is looking to update its heritage laws, as other states have done. But what actually is heritage?
Implosion is the most dramatic way of demolishing a building but it’s also the most wasteful and hazardous. Luke Schmidt/Shutterstock January 20, 2020 Unbuilding cities as high-rises reach their use-by date Norman Day, Swinburne University of Technology The problems of demolishing high-rise buildings in busy cities point to the need to prepare for unbuilding at the time of building. We’d then be much better placed to recycle building materials.
Building collapses in Lagos have become common in recent years. BBC March 26, 2019 Why buildings keep collapsing in Lagos and what can be done about it Ndubisi Onwuanyi, University of Benin Lagos has all the appropriate laws but it needs to adopt the right procedures and see them through.