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1 hour ago, Jordan M. said:

According to Flight Aware it’s not even one of SW’s usual helicopters, which would explain the lack of branding.

VH-SWX and VH-SWL are the usuals.

And it only landed yesterday. Probably due for a major service so being stored until needed? Or in the area to be used at the V8 Event in a few weeks time. 

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Now available at Dreamworld...

optional safety features!!

ABC Ferris Wheel... 

“seat belts are optional Guys, use them if you wish” 

hmm.. then why are they even there??

hopefully soon we can choose between a log with a roof or one without one..

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For those that wonder why many structures got knocked down Including The lazy river fountain, Scooby Doo Spooky coaster queue castle, Rocky Hollow log ride cave etc. It did not comply with the National Construction Code / Building Code of Australia as they changed the fire FRLS. 

 

this was not village roadshows or ardents decision. 

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National Construction Code / Building Code of Australia as they changed the fire FRLS. 

 

 

The NCC cannot force you to update your existing structure to the current standards.  If they did nearly every structure in Australia, more than 10 years old would require changes.

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The new NCC 2019 version that come out is for any new buildings, this is what got sky voyager caught up cos they started the paperwork process after this fact. It would be a WPHSQ decision to force them to comply not a NCC issue. The only reason a building would be forced to comply with updated regulations is if you do major renovation work. 

(NCC Stands for National Construction code for those wondering)

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The new NCC 2019 had nothing to do with SV delays.  I'll put in context.

Imagine you’re building a house and you get the building approvals and the builder builds the house.  Sometime from the start of the building process and until you get a final inspection a new NCC comes out.  Say the new NCC requires 4mm glass instead of the 3mm glass that was approved to be installed when you received your building approvals.  Does anybody believe they would tell you to replace every window in your house?  The answer is no and that’s because the NCC isn’t retrospective.  The day the plans are approved is stuck for ever.((98% of the time))

Up to the current NCC a new NCC came out every year since 1998 right up to 2016.  It’s crazy talk to believe or think that the NCC requires every building ever built to comply to every new change.

 

Here’s the but.

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The Queensland Government has the power to overwrite the NCC.  (more or less) and the power to add to it.

 

The last version of the NCC was 2016

The GrenFell Tower fire happened in 2017.

The new version is NCC 2019 from the 1st of May.


The theme parks removed the items before the new version of the NCC came out.

After the fire and it was apparent there was a problem the Queensland Government did an audit on all of its buildings.  After the QLD Government realised how widespread the problem was the QLD Gov legislated that all private/public structures go through a 3-stage review on cladding items that might be a fire risk.  If the states waited for the NCC to do their own changes to the building code, then it would’ve only been done a few months ago.

In a matter of fact, by QLD law, the unsafe cladding doesn’t have to be replaced unto May 2021.

 

While state authorities grappled with problematic cladding, some property developers and owners took pre-emptive action to replace the cladding that they know, or suspect, falls foul of the new standards.

 

I'm not going to say anymore on the matter because I'm putting myself to sleep. :)

 

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3 hours ago, Sarahscott said:

@Brad2912 were the restraints on the Ferris Wheel actually optional? Because I am hoping they take them off from Shock Wave as it's down for maintenance at the moment. 

They were optional. But think you’ll find restraints in an already enclosed capsule that travels at about 1km an hour may be assessed differently in terms of necessity to those on a thrill ride 

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Weve done quite a few retrofits of existing buildings. 

I reckon it might be more simple than that. Something probably got picked up on a check or audit. Risk analysis done, found unsafe to current standards. Risk is too great even though not required to bring it up to current code. 

Risk of safety and possible monumental cost if something was to happen required removal and reconstruction. Once you open up that can of worms you start looking at what else was constructed around the same time / materials / techniques, and you maybe find a greater problem than you anticipated. 

Weve had clients require engineered firewalls. One was so expansive it blew out their budget a couple hundred thousand, then all the reconstruction around the barrier to put it back again. All of a sudden someone is half a million in the hole just to get back to a flat plastered gyprock wall. 

The alternative isnt even worth considering if the residents of your new apartment are killed because a fairly simple fire made its way through 3 internal walls in the ground floor of your warehouse conversion and youre found out to have cheaped out on safety during the fitout. 

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11 hours ago, AlexB said:

^yeah. Like you wouldn’t want to design your control board in house, and then modify it, and modify it, and modify it, and then not build in a proper power disconnect or something...

Just build 7 different ones. Surely if you hit all of them, the power will eventually stop... right?

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