Engineer who helped build Melbourne’s public housing towers condemns plan to demolish ‘icons’
by Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6Z4QT)
Victorian government defends redevelopment, saying towers are outdated and unsafe as inquiry continues
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An engineer who helped build Melbourne's public housing towers in the 1960s has condemned the Victorian government's plan to demolish them, saying it is expensive, unnecessary and environmentally irresponsible.
Gerry Noonan, who worked on most of the city's 44 towers, told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into their redevelopment they should be refurbished and upgraded instead - citing the financial cost and carbon impact of demolition and rebuilding.
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