Star Entertainment Sydney v Buildcorp The Star Entertainment Sydney Properties Pty Ltd v Buildcorp Group Pty Ltd trading as Buildcorp Interiors [2026] NSWSC 27 was heard in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and concerned the use of aluminium composite panels (ACPs)...
To design safe buildings, fire safety engineers must understand how occupants behave during a fire emergency. In simple terms, the time occupants take to evacuate to a place of safety must not exceed the time it takes for fire conditions to become untenable within the...
When One Side Fails to Show Reflections from a Cancelled Commercial Mediation By Christina Knorr, Fire Safety Expert and Expert Witness Recently, I was scheduled to attend a commercial dispute mediation, not in my usual role as a technical consultant behind the...
Infinity Tower Brisbane - Cladding Body Corporate for Infinity 1 Community Titles Scheme 45404 v Queensland Building and Construction Commission & Anor [2025] QCAT 54 Infinity 1 Body Corporate took the Queensland Building and Construction Commission (QBCC) and...
From Backpacker to Fire Safety Expert The Story of Christina Knorr In Far North Queensland, one woman is redefining fire safety, construction compliance, and entrepreneurial grit. Christina Knorr, founder and managing director of CJK Fire & Safety (CJK), is more...
The subject of this case study is the compliance issue of a floor covering product installed in a processing plant in Queensland. On one side was the company who owned the facility (claimant) and the other was the contractor who installed the product (respondent)....
Case Study: Building Defects - Cladding Court Case The subject of this case study is a construction litigation case of a mixed-use building in NSW that CJK has been involved with since 2021. The multi-storey building contains a mixture of commercial and retail...
Bangladesh, a manufacturing powerhouse in South Asia, is a small country but densely populated with approximately 160 million people. On 29th February 2024, a six-storey shopping centre in the country’s Capital, Dhaka, caught fire; resulting in over 46 fatalities...