Hi,
Fire safety upgrade – we need help to navigate this – we are in a mess with owners looking at huge bill – we need advice on a more sensible approach, and any advice is much appreciated.
Our 14 unit 1975 build is undergoing significant remedial works as well as a voluntary fire upgrade. We have a fire report but it seems it has given us all the “bells & whistles” that includes sprinklers in each unit…very very expensive.
It seems no minimum requirement that would satisfy Council is in the report so we cannot get approval to upgrade safely in the most sensible manner (without huge fees for many fixed income owners). What to do?
My question is: Is there an independent fire project manager anyone can recommend that could take another look and work with council for acceptable requirements. Do these Fire Safety companies work with councils to make a plan for the upgrade to ensure non-prohibitive cost but satisfactory upgrades?
We have an existing Building engineer for the remedial works & a fire contractor that seems to have gone awol without fixing the minor works that would have made council happ(ier) with us – to stem off a fire order.
The building engineer has also a report – is this also a fire report? Do council also look at this report?
To be clear, there was no “incident” to trigger the council upgrade, we did have annual fire certs (through another company) – IT WAS VOLUNTARY.
Our Strata Committee seem exhausted, and owners want to participate but scratching their heads trying to sort out what the process is and hope you have some advice to help.