NAT Coastal building maintenance: Proactively prolong the life of your coastal building

This article is about coastal building maintenance and the importance of a maintenance plan to prolong the life of your coastal building.

Question: We are in a large beachfront tower. What proactive maintenance can we take to prolong the life of our coastal building and reduce maintenance costs over the long term?

Answer: A maintenance plan is critical to buildings, especially as they are exposed to the extreme marine environment.

A maintenance plan is critical to the building, especially for coastal properties exposed to the extreme marine environment. Beachfront properties are in the highest category of exposure. When drawing up the maintenance plan, experts will discover what building elements need the most attention.

The maintenance plan extrapolates the short, medium and long term maintenance costs.

A solid plan will give you a clear vision of where the body corporate is heading over the next 10 years and what the building will need.

Bruce McKenzie
Sedgwick
E: bruce.mckenzie@au.sedgwick.com
P: 1300 735 720

This post appears in the November 2024 edition of The QLD Strata Magazine.

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