when boredom meets passion

[Batfink]

Rant away shorty... There are many worrying things that are occurring in the building industry.
The biggest shame is the down grading of TAFE apprentice schooling to very basic training criteria and assessments by the "builder" which is now more a paper tradesman than a master craftsman (sorry for the sexists titles lol). Then combine this with a national building code (BCA or NCC) which is there to demonstrate the MINIMUM required but, like all standards, has become the target to aim for!
Then you look at the Board that controls this NCC is run by academics that never lifted a hammer or product specialists that only want to promote more and expensive products. Why are they doing research into things that have been sorted out for decades in Europe and America?
I love design (but hate designers), I love research (but hate academic researchers), I love tradition (but hate blind obedience), I love innovation (but hate trends)... From these things, and with 7+ years of trying to find out everything I can, I came up with the principles of construction used in the model. Very happy to discuss the whys and wherefores lol...