Why knock down all public housing towers when retrofit can sometimes be better?
- Written by: Trivess Moore, Associate Professor, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
The Victorian government is planning Australia’s largest urban renewal project. The plan is to knock down and rebuild 44 large public housing towers in Melbourne. The government says these towers, built in the 1960s and ’70s, are no longer fit for purpose and will cost more to maintain and upgrade than to replace.
Read more: Why knock down all public housing towers when retrofit can sometimes be better?
