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Hi everyone,
I’m on the strata committee of a new building. What are the best practice solutions for managing contractor access in medium to large buildings? We have 60-70 units.
Currently, some committee members have master key sets for emergencies. And we have given regular contractors their own master keys (cleaners + monthly fire inspectors)
Some people want to hire a building manager to handle any non-regular contractors.
Surely there are solutions out there that don’t require a whole building manager? What do other buildings do? eg do you have secure lockboxes outside the building somewhere? With digital codes that change monthly or something? Our neighbouring building had their lockbox broken into so we are nervous about this, but theirs was very basic. Can a strata manager hold keys for us, and make contractors go through the strata to pick up the keys?
Really hoping there are alternative available and keen to hear from everyone else’s experience.
Thank you!
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Hiring a building manager just to manage contractor access seems excessive. But if there’s that much work going on, maybe you need one anyway. They could also make sure tradies were working withing the permitted hours.
If your strata manager is based locally, they could feasibly run a sign-in, sign-out service for keys. I’m pretty sure they would charge you for it too.
For a less expensive option, I’m quoting from a post in a totally different thread, from Nugalbags who has solved the problem of emergency keys and other general access keys by installing a recodable security box.
we have in our block a wall mounted lock key box (https://www.bunnings.com.au/master-lock-wall-mounted-key-safe_p4210912) … only a couple Committee Members have the code. I change our code regularly as this box also holds a set door keys (for tradies), noticeboard keys, MSB keys, side gate key etc.
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