Unlike major projects, where you have the clerk of works and continuous monitoring, in housing construction, you can only have critical point inspections(on account of cost).
This has the inherent blind spot between critical points.
In Victoria, we don't have the mandatory pre-plaster inspection. I call it last "chance inspection" and an opportunity to check that everything is as it should be before it becomes covered up. So it means that structural bracing bashed with the hammer by the electrician and bracing and beams, cut by plumbers will likely never be picked up. It gets worse, fire separation walls too may not be finished before being covered up.
I regularly find structural damage, crooked wall and missed items on my independent pre-plaster inspection and have found quite a few apartment buildings with faulty/incomplete fire walls. If you live in one will you be sleeping easy tonight?
Even if you have as I recommend a minimum of four independent inspections during construction of your home there are still serious blind spots.
For example, between frame inspection and pre-plaster, brickwork will go up and I won't see it until it may be too late. So I regularly find missing or misplaced articulation joints.
I try to atone for blind spots by teaming up with the owner. With me as their expert, in the cloud, and them as my man or woman spotter on the ground we can overcome the worst of the blind spots.
The mother of all blind spots, however, is signing your building contract without expert review, in the blind trust and thinking less than buying shoes. There may be no help!