QLD: Q&A Insurance Increases Due To Defects

This QLD article is about insurance increases due to building defects such as cladding.

Table of Contents:

• QUESTION: What’s been happening with cladding in Queensland body corporate buildings?
• QUESTION: Regarding cladding on QLD strata buildings, what is the compliance if a building was constructed in 1980?

Question: What’s been happening with cladding in Queensland body corporate buildings?

Answer: Yes, the QBCC is out there enforcing orders.

The three stages of the cladding process had deadlines. Those deadlines have passed and the QBCC is going out, somewhat surprisingly, and enforcing those deadlines. We’ve had situations where summons are issued against bodies corporate and owners of buildings. The QBCC has been issuing fines because bodies corporate haven’t done what they were supposed to do.

Body corporate managers who were on the ball really actively managed the repairs knowing this was a big risk and they protected their clients. Well done to all those who have gone through the process and finished, and this was probably due to the professionalism of those body corporate managers. So, yes, the QBCC is out there enforcing orders.

Todd Garsden
Mahoneys
E: tgarsden@mahoneys.com.au
P: 07 3007 3753

This post appears in Strata News #642.

Question: Regarding cladding on QLD strata buildings, what is the compliance if a building was constructed in 1980?

Answer: The rationale for the cladding laws was that this type of cladding appeared in the mid 90’s or so – which is why buildings built before then don’t need to worry about it unless they went and did something to their building needing a development approval after 1994.

Frank Higginson
Hynes Legal
E: frank.higginson@hyneslegal.com.au
P: 07 3193 0500

This post appears in Strata News #587.

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