Collaborative construction or what is often called ‘integrated project management’ can be a powerful tool in most new construction projects, but not often afforded in ‘smaller’ projects, however without it, your small project can blowout easily by $10,000 to $15,000.

Design issues in fire rated walls arise constantly, and all too often can be time consuming, involve changed drawings and if identified too late, expensive reworks. In this warehouse case study we explore the potential issue in this early stage, a solution, and outcomes for our client.

We have seen great innovations of late made to improve building and inspections processes, minimising the challenges of defects through improved tracking and data compilation, but have you seen ‘Certifired’?

As a company specialising in the firewall niche, we inspect and certify many firewalls and are increasingly frustrated that the same simple mistakes are made, the resulting rectification is causing unnecessary expense and program delay.

Earlier this year our Co-Founder and managing Director Gina Patrick was a guest on the “Future of Australia” podcast following a 27% growth in revenue landing us on the 2018 Financial Review list of 100 fastest growing new companies.

For construction lawyers, getting an expert witness on any building defect type can be challenging, but when it involves a niche industry where education and quality levels over the years have been negligible or misunderstood, what happens then?

Passive fire compliance… you know you need it…

With many cases of defects in highly publicised cases, your works are bound to be scrutinised more closely, so it’s a necessity to be diligent, compliant and create evidence.

During our inspections we constantly find fire walls where Zinc Alloy fixings (Shuredrives) have been used, and generally proudly the installer declares “I used metal anchors” – well maybe so but sorry they are the wrong ones, as they may melt in a fire!