Recommendations from Opal Tower debacle not acted on

Engineers say changes are years overdue and obvious before Opal or Mascot Towers evacuations

Australia’s engineers say the recommendations from Opal Tower have still not been acted on, as the Mascot Towers apartment buildings in Sydney continued to sink further into the ground this week.

An emergency report into the cracked Opal Tower was completed in February by prominent university deans of architecture after the brand-new building was dramatically evacuated in December.

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