What isn his fire report you Have?
There are fire consultants out there. Pretty common as every new building needs a fire report. The fire report details all the fire measures necessary for that building. If you get a fire report it’s designis to the current fire safety requirements. The fire report will also detail the requirements of the AFSS.
I have heard that in some cases the council will allow some non compliances because of an old building not being compatible with new requirements ( one I can think of is installing fire hydrants on each floor. In some buildings it’s impossible beacuse it makes the egress path too narrow).
Having said that, bringing an old building up to modern fire standards is going to be real expensive . You will need a special levy and possibly look at a strata loan.
If you have an order from the council, there are big fines for not complying or dragging your feet.
Thankyou for replies – am beginning to understand the different roles of the companies we have :
We have a BCA report, followed by a performance solution report from another company. Then the fire solution installer & council.
BCA says the enclosed balconies (not all are) have not an adequate “spandrel” separation (?) which the performance solution seems to choice the option of sprinklers in every apartment (?) super expensive
we are trying to understand how much discretion council has with this – if we need another performance solution company to look at other options provided by BCA.
Or are we better off getting a consultant style project manager person to do all this liaising – as we don’t know the what of anything – other than we cannot afford sprinklers everywhere after new doors etc (which we understand) .
Thankyou for any information you can help us with