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Courting disaster

Landlords who rent out unfinished buildings not only violate the Building Code but also expose residents to physical and health hazards, writes Allan Olingo

It is an all-familiar sight; residential houses with unsightly hulking steel skeleton and shutter bars protruding from their slab. The owners of these houses still harbour ambitions of adding more floors over the complete ones.

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