Building Matters to be at CTIQ Annual Conference
For the second year in a row, Building Matters Queensland will be contributing to the Community Titles Institute of Queensland‘s Annual Conference. The conference is the educational highlight of the Institute’s activities, and BM will contribute both knowledge and advice as part of the educative process. This year, the conference will be held in Noosa, and will feature approximately 200 Queensland businesses exemplifying specialists in the strata industry, including property managers and body corporates.
CTIQ members have ownership or management interest in some 320,000 properties throughout Queensland falling within around 35,000 different community titles schemes across Queensland. CTIQ is arguably the most influential body in setting the body corporate law reform agenda achieving outcomes to protect both consumers and the profession.
Brisbane Body Corporate Industry Expo – Building Matters Represented.
Wendy Moulton, Director of Building Matters Queensland, proudly represented her company recently as part of the Queensland Body Corporate Association‘s (QBCA) Brisbane Body Corporate Industry Expo, held in Noosa, 10-12 March. She provided property owners with valuable information on minimising cost outlays when dealing with builders and defective work, and how to reduce red tape in the Building Services Authority (BSA) process. She promoted the value of communication, and emphasised the importance of all parties involved being committed to the process of dealing with the rectification of works. She also highlighted the need for owners and body corporate to be coordinated in their approach to the builder and explained how her organisational skills and knowledge would help to simplify the building complaint process and provide peace of mind.
Women Into Building Housing Showcase
A team including women ranging from architects and engineers to trades people have designed, constructed and supplied a sustainable and environmentally designed showcase home.
This project was an opportunity for women to network and build links with women established in the construction industry. Mentorship was a strong element of the project with young participants receiving first hand guidance and encouragement from key figures of the building industry.
CPSISC (Construction Properties Services Skill Council) and www.constructmycareer.com.au will distribute nationally still images and videos compiled during the design and construction of the Women into Building Housing Showcase. Industry associations, career advisors and schools will receive copies depicting the vast array of career trade/vocations of women actively participating within the building industry.
The Women into Building Housing Showcase is bringing various issues to the forefront of the industry. The Builder behind the “Buildmore Women into Building Housing Showcase” knew that to successfully set an industry benchmark there had to be more depth to this national first initiative than it being designed and built
predominately by women. Beyond the underpinning key message within this initiative is the importance of Environmental Sustainability.
Buildmore demonstrates its commitment to use best practise in the protection of the environment by ensuring that efficient and sound principles are implemented on our sites and adopting measurable targets which lead to the promotion of passive design, low impact materials, sustainable development and waste reduction.
It is the first time a project of this scale has been completed through the labour and promotion of a predominantly female team in Australia.
Wendy Moulton from Building Matters Queensland is a key organiser and instrumental support partner and role model of the WIB Initiative. Wendy and the Women into Building team are proud to present to you a beautiful, sustainable home that represents the collaboration of many important Key Industry Stakeholders, combined with the contribution of an unprecedented number of talented women who demonstrated ingenuity, skill and determination. This home is representative of a key message that we felt was timely to convey and the industry wholeheartedly embraced and shared this positive sentiment.
We know that countless women are inspired by the numerous role models who were profiled throughout the duration of this project. We hold deep pride in each and every individual and organisation who participated in the overall success of this project and congratulate each of them on the outstanding historical results!
Text courtesy of Women Into Building, photos courtesy of Brian Rogers Photographics.
Brisbane area has plenty of room to expand yet
Brisbane area has plenty of room to expand for the future – the Queensland Government’s Broadhectare study has identified all suitable land parcels for residential development in the Brisbane City Council area greater than 2,500 square metres, plus any vacant lots to accommodate around 50,000 new houses and unit complexes. The study doesn’t include smaller land holdings already built on which could potentially be subdivided.
The Deputy Premier and Minister for Infrastructure and Planning – Paul Lucas – said there is sufficient land here and in surrounding areas to cope with population growth for years to come. This is welcome news for developers and the real estate market as well as the projected 100,000 new residents which should take the city’s population to more than 1.1 million by 2016.
Visit www.infrastructure.qld.gov.au/pifu for more information on the Brisbane City Broadhectare Study Edition 6, 2008.
Building Matters Queensland Opens Its Doors.
Building Matters Qld (BM) has recently opened its doors as a building consultancy to assist consumers and builders to communicate effectively and resolve disputes. Wendy Moulton, Director of BM advises that their specialty is in red tape busting. Her extensive experience in the Queensland building industry is underpinned by 15 years with the BSA.
Building Matters brings assistance to consumers and contractors – not only mediation and dispute resolution assistance but also:
- Advocacy roles during the construction process
- A cost effective review and representation at the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal
- Personalised case reviews and guidance with BSA complaints
- The ability to review the basis of any BSA decision and advise on possible paths forward
If either a consumer or a builder are at logger heads with each other, Building Matters can step in to clear the issues whilst you move on giving peace of mind.
