Recently City of Sydney Council has issued notice letters to building owners regarding property maintenance inspections and certifications for street awnings, signs, balconies, balustrades, retaining walls and fences in light of recent collapses and failures. The Council has requested that…
READ MORELike people, strata-titled residential buildings age with the passing years – some more gracefully than others. While the Building Code of Australia (BCA) stipulates that new buildings are to remain functional for a fifty-year design life, many buildings throughout the…
READ MOREHave you undertaken or received a Building/Engineering Inspection report recently? Did you agree with the outcomes and recommendations? Or was it simply just too technical and didn’t answer your questions? Strata Managers are increasingly required to engage engineering and building…
READ MORES.W.P comes across an exploded glass balustrade where the owner details it shattering occured without any provocation. Our expertise suggest the cause of experienced glass explosion is most likely related to inherent issues with toughened glass material as stated within…
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