Clean and well-maintained ventilation systems play a vital role in ensuring a healthy and comfortable living environment for residents and guests. Regular maintenance improves indoor air quality and prevents potential issues such as fire and health risks, poor airflow, unpleasant odours, overheating, and, in some cases mould growth. Let’s explore some ways in which the…
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Australian strata title buildings, owners, and stakeholders are regulated by extensive & complex strata laws that are created, tweaked, and managed by state governments. But, do those governments have any clear policy objectives, strategies, or medium to long-term plans for strata title, or, are they just reacting to more and more strata buildings crises? And,…
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One of the most important items to discuss before hiring a commercial painting contractor is warranties. In the painting industry, there are two separate warranties you need to be aware of when planning a painting and maintenance project: the paint warranty and the workmanship warranty (also called the painter’s warranty). These two warranties work together to protect…
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Yes. I know. I promised this article earlier. I have a good excuse – merging my firm Stratum Legal with Bugden Allen Graham Lawyers, has taken just a teensy, weensy bit of my time…. On the upside, the delay means that the 2022 numbers are out, so we can check progress on the bet with…
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What are Embedded Networks? Strata communities are one of the biggest consumers of embedded network systems. In short, embedded networks are systems used in multi-tenanted buildings or complexes, to re-distribute energy through a private system. Generally, the owner of a site will purchase the energy from an energy retailer, and then sell the energy directly…
Read MoreMaybe the Irwin’s were onto something when they got involved with Crocodiles…. They don’t move around much or leave their home (at Australia Zoo), sleep a fair bit, just lay in a pool, don’t bark, don’t wander around depositing nasty surprises everywhere, don’t attack people on common property, don’t shed hair that may give allergies…
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Or, stopping hammering by-laws and rules as the one size fits all solution… 25 years ago, I popularised by-laws as a great way to customise strata building operations. But the proliferation of strata by-laws and strata rules since then has gone too far; leading to unnecessary, inappropriate, and invalid by-laws and rules with strata stakeholders…
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