Construction

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores being a manager in the construction industry and the lack of competent supervision and skills shortages impacting senior levels in Construction Management. Dimitri also looks at how this lack of competent mentorship for new managers is just becoming common place throughout the industry and creating its own self perpetuating issues both in skills shortages and the ability to create healthy buildings in our booming market.

Bio: Construction Specialist, Dimitri Livas earned a Bachelor of Commerce as well as an Advanced Diploma in Construction Management. He has over 20 years of real world construction expertise, as the founder and CEO of Savil Group which he established in 1998 and has grown to become a successful commercial construction company, building multi-million dollar projects for some of Australia's biggest brands. ​With Dimitri at the Helm, Savil and the team now focus their extensive expertise and experience on Fixing Broken Buildings and Creating Healthy Buildings. 

Specialties: Fixing Broken Buildings, Creating Healthy Buildings, Entrepreneurship, Commercial Construction, Speaker.

Savil Group - Construction Remediation Company Website:

https://www.savilgroup.com.au

Dimitri Livas - Speaker and Media Website:

https://www.dimitrilivas.com

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores news that has just come out that the Evacuated Mascot Towers are going to cost at $20 million to remedy and so the residents have had the shock of a lifetime when they received this Agenda for the Owners Corporation meeting. You might remember that in June, the owners voted in favour of a $1 million special levy to make urgent repairs to the building and investigate cracks in structural support beams after the residents were evacuated just a week earlier. Now two months later, as the building remains empty, owners are gonna be asked to commit to forking out a further $10-$20 million-dollar special levy to begin substantial repairs. Well let’s see what happens, stay tuned for more updates on Mascot and other broken building issues as they come to light

Bio: Construction Specialist, Dimitri Livas earned a Bachelor of Commerce as well as an Advanced Diploma in Construction Management. He has over 20 years of real world construction expertise, as the founder and CEO of Savil Group which he established in 1998 and has grown to become a successful commercial construction company, building multi-million dollar projects for some of Australia's biggest brands. ​With Dimitri at the Helm, Savil and the team now focus their extensive expertise and experience on Fixing Broken Buildings and Creating Healthy Buildings. 

Specialties: Fixing Broken Buildings, Creating Healthy Buildings, Entrepreneurship, Commercial Construction, Speaker.

Savil Group - Construction Remediation Company Website:

https://www.savilgroup.com.au

Dimitri Livas - Speaker and Media Website:

https://www.dimitrilivas.com

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores 5 Famous Construction Failures Around the World. What we can learn from each of them? From South Korea's Sampoong Department Store Collapse and the Hyatt Regency Walkway in Kansas City to Italy's famous Leaning Tower of Pisa and Bangladesh's Savar Tragedy. Throughout history construction failures have happened all over the world. We can all learn from these failures and we can Fix our Broken Buildings to Create the Healthy Buildings of Tomorrow.

Bio: Construction Specialist, Dimitri Livas earned a Bachelor of Commerce as well as an Advanced Diploma in Construction Management. He has over 20 years of real world construction expertise, as the founder and CEO of Savil Group which he established in 1998 and has grown to become a successful commercial construction company, building multi-million dollar projects for some of Australia's biggest brands. ​With Dimitri at the Helm, Savil and the team now focus their extensive expertise and experience on Fixing Broken Buildings and Creating Healthy Buildings. 

Specialties: Fixing Broken Buildings, Creating Healthy Buildings, Entrepreneurship, Commercial Construction, Speaker.

Savil Group - Construction Remediation Company Website:

https://www.savilgroup.com.au

Dimitri Livas - Speaker and Media Website:

https://www.dimitrilivas.com

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores the Quality of New Apartment Towers. With combustible cladding just the tip of the iceberg of defects for high-rise apartment owners in Australia, who will also have to fix widespread problems such as water ingress, structural faults from sinking or shifting buildings, and incomplete fire safety systems to name just a few. 

Bio: Construction Specialist, Dimitri Livas earned a Bachelor of Commerce as well as an Advanced Diploma in Construction Management. He has over 20 years of real world construction expertise, as the founder and CEO of Savil Group which he established in 1998 and has grown to become a successful commercial construction company, building multi-million dollar projects for some of Australia's biggest brands. ​With Dimitri at the Helm, Savil and the team now focus their extensive expertise and experience on Fixing Broken Buildings and Creating Healthy Buildings. 

Specialties: Fixing Broken Buildings, Creating Healthy Buildings, Entrepreneurship, Commercial Construction, Speaker.

Savil Group - Construction Remediation Company Website:

https://www.savilgroup.com.au

Dimitri Livas - Speaker and Media Website:

https://www.dimitrilivas.com

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores The Millennium Tower, San Francisco's very own Leaning Tower. We take a look at leaning, moving, tilting and shifting towers around the world including the recent issues with Sydney's Opal and Mascot Towers, the age old and world famous leaning tower of Pisa and Egypts Azarita tower which fell right into a neighbouring building. What causes these towers to sink? to lean? to shift and to collapse? and how can they be fixed or saved? Join Dimitri Livas for this episode number 9 of the Broken Buildings Podcast to find out more.

Bio: Construction Specialist, Dimitri Livas earned a Bachelor of Commerce as well as an Advanced Diploma in Construction Management. He has over 20 years of real world construction expertise, as the founder and CEO of Savil Group which he established in 1998 and has grown to become a successful commercial construction company, building multi-million dollar projects for some of Australia's biggest brands. ​With Dimitri at the Helm, Savil and the team now focus their extensive expertise and experience on Fixing Broken Buildings and Creating Healthy Buildings. 

Specialties: Fixing Broken Buildings, Creating Healthy Buildings, Entrepreneurship, Commercial Construction, Speaker.

Savil Group - Construction Remediation Company Website:

https://www.savilgroup.com.au

Dimitri Livas - Speaker and Media Website:

https://www.dimitrilivas.com

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores what happens when Bridges Collapse, exploring bridges around the world, including the recent Ponte Morandi in Italy, the famous Galloping Gertie in the USA and the Westgate Bridge in our own backyard here in Melbourne, Australia. We also look at what new technologies are being used to quake proof the bridges of the future in San Francisco, and how these advances also help us monitor and maintain older bridges more successfully. 

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores the Combustible Cladding Crisis and some of the reasons why #combustible #cladding is still causing such a dangerous conundrum in 2019. 

While resolving the issue remains at the forefront of property owner’s and the government’s minds, the root of the problem still hasn’t been properly addressed. No matter what preventative measures need to be taken, it goes without saying the authorities need to ensure their citizens are kept safe. How can this be resolved? What is being done? and what will and needs to be done? As the the cladding crisis continues to escalate, only time will tell what lies ahead for the construction industry in Australia.

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores the recent evacuation of Mascot Towers due to structural issues and cracking support beams. How many more buildings will be evacuated?

In the space of six months, two predominant towers in NSW have been evacuated by emergency services due to the safety of residents after structural issues. First it was the Opal Tower in December 2018, and now Mascot Towers has experienced movement and cracking in a major structural support beam that prompted engineers, building management and emergency services to evacuate the building pending further investigations. Why is this happening? Is it just happening in NSW? What is the cause of these building issues and how widespread is the problem? Is this just the tip of the iceberg? The builder seems to be the first one everyone points the finger at, but it’s a much more complex problem than that, involving engineers, architects, strata managers, owner corporations and government authorities. So, how do we fix the problem and focus on creating healthy buildings?

Savil Group - Construction Remediation Company Website:

https://www.savilgroup.com.au

Dimitri Livas - Speaker and Media Website:

https://www.dimitrilivas.com

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores How dangerous was the nearby Sydney Opera House gas Leak?

On Tuesday, 500 people were safely evacuated from the Sydney Opera House after an excavator hit a gas main during construction works. In this case, safety procedures were followed, much to the credit of the construction team and the safety crew - but how close was it to becoming a complete catastrophe? In 2014, a huge explosion from a natural gas leak killed eight people and destroyed two five-storey buildings in New York City. Natural gas is extremely combustible and in large quantities or if ignited, can be explosive and deadly. Accidentally damaging any utility is serious - essential services are interrupted, repairs are costly, and safety crews and the general public are put at risk with escaping gas possibly migrating to nearby areas and buildings where it can re-ignite within minutes. How risky is it to hit a gas line - in this case, so close to one of our most iconic landmarks?

Savil Group - Construction Remediation Company Website:

https://www.savilgroup.com.au

Dimitri Livas - Speaker and Media Website:

https://www.dimitrilivas.com

Broken Buildings Expert, Dimitri Livas explores the Road Collapse at Adelaide's new Darlington Road Upgrade, and how this relates to the ongoing need to both fix and repair Australia's National Road Networks, National highways, Urban and Regional Areas, with a look at Federal, State and Local funding - Fixing Australia's Crumbling Highway's & Road Infrastructures. 

Savil Group - Construction Remediation Company Website:

https://www.savilgroup.com.au

Dimitri Livas - Speaker and Media Website:

https://www.dimitrilivas.com