The Facts
Panel company hired to supply and install panels for townhouse
walls
AC was the principal contractor for the construction of
fifty-eight townhouses on the outskirts of Sydney.
The townhouses were to be clustered across nine buildings,
referred to as "stacks".
AC engaged a panel company to supply and install panels that
would form the walls of the stacks.
Each panel consisted of two large fibro cement sheets, separated
from each other by short steel spacers.
The panels were to be placed vertically, resting on their edges,
and then the spaces between the pairs of fibro cement sheets were
to be filled by pouring concrete into the voids.
The panels were supplied in bundles, each consisting of several
panels laid on top of each other.
