Oversized plumbing is adding millions to Australian building costs, thanks to a standard dating back to the 1940s
- Written by: James Gong, Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering, Deakin University
ShutterstockOutdated plumbing standards are leading to oversized systems and inflated costs for Australian apartment buildings. Their plumbing systems are required to handle demand for water that’s more than three times the actual recorded peak demand, our newly published research shows.
The “designed peak demand” as laid out...
