Stra­ta Reme­di­al Construction

Our spe­cialised team can pro­vide you with tar­get­ed advice for your reme­di­al project with full con­sid­er­a­tion of the Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020 (DBP Act) and accom­pa­ny­ing regulations. 

Stra­ta Build­ing Main­te­nance & Reme­di­al Works include: 

• Design & con­struc­tion contracts
• Con­struct only contracts
• super­in­ten­dent / con­sul­tan­cy agreements
• Sub-con­trac­tor agreements
• Tailed advice on con­tract issues and DBPA Requirements:
  • Dis­pute resolution
  • Lit­i­ga­tion & enforcement
  • SOPA Claims

Range of exper­tise include: 

Project doc­u­ments

• suites of tem­plate con­tracts adapt­ed specif­i­cal­ly for ongo­ing use with­in your busi­ness, includ­ing build­ing con­tracts, super­in­ten­den­cy con­tracts, design and con­sul­tan­cy
  agree­ments ear­ly works agreements
• ear­ly works agreements
• let­ters of intent/​conditional accep­tance of tender
• busi­ness and employ­ment con­tracts for design prac­ti­tion­ers, super­in­ten­dents and build­ing practitioners
• devel­op­ment approval or con­struc­tion devel­op­ment cer­tifi­cate or exempt devel­op­ment advice

Before project commencement

• pre­pare ten­der ready and final con­tracts for your res­i­den­tial or com­mer­cial stra­ta build­ing works
• amend Aus­tralian Stan­dard Gen­er­al Con­di­tions e.g. AS4000, AS4905, AS4902, AS4906, AS4122), with accom­pa­ny­ing for­mal instru­ment of agreement
• bespoke build­ing contracts
• con­sul­tan­cy, design and/​or super­in­ten­dent agreements
• deeds to vary an exist­ing contract
• DBP Act:
  • does the reme­di­al build­ing works need to com­ply with the DBP Act
  • pre­pare spe­cial con­di­tions to com­ply with the DBP Act
  • con­di­tions to ensure prepa­ra­tion of reg­u­lat­ed designs by a reg­is­tered design practitioner
  • tips for own­ers cor­po­ra­tions, build­ing prac­ti­tion­ers, and/​or design prac­ti­tion­ers on process­es, oblig­a­tions and man­age­ment of the processes
  • exempt devel­op­ment or devel­op­ment approval plan­ning advice
  • con­sid­er­ing if reme­di­al works are emer­gency reme­di­al build­ing works

Dur­ing the project

Dur­ing the course of your project, we will be on hand to:

• assist you with inter­pre­ta­tion of con­tract terms
• par­tic­i­pate in dis­pute res­o­lu­tion to pro­duce non-liti­gious solu­tions (out of court solutions)
• pre­pare any nec­es­sary vari­a­tions of con­tract or addi­tion­al
  agree­ments
• assist in Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act 1999 (SOPA) claims and nav­i­gate pay­ment claims
• ter­mi­na­tion of contracts
• advise as to any vari­a­tions aris­ing and sat­is­fy­ing vari­a­tion
  require­ments under the DBP Act

After project completion

After build­ing works are complete:

• tra­vers­ing final pay­ment claims
• man­ag­ing defects dur­ing the defects lia­bil­i­ty period
• con­tract claims in case of a dispute
• com­mon law claims in cas­es of negligence
• statu­to­ry breach­es and claims:
  • DBP Act claims for breach of duty of care (aris­ing from orig­i­nal con­struc­tion of your build­ing and/​or reme­di­al con­struc­tion) and eco­nom­ic loss aris­ing from defects
  • Home Build­ing Act 1989 claims (aris­ing from orig­i­nal con­struc­tion of your build­ing and/​or reme­di­al con­struc­tion) includ­ing for defects in your building
  • SOPA claims
• deal­ing with any Build­ing Works Rec­ti­fi­ca­tion Orders issued on you or your prop­er­ty by the Build­ing Com­mis­sion NSW
• nav­i­gat­ing insol­ven­cy of your builder or developer:
  • home build­ing com­pen­sa­tion fund insur­ance claims
  • nav­i­gat­ing claims dur­ing the exter­nal admin­is­tra­tion and/​or liq­ui­da­tion process

Use­ful Links

• Design and Build­ing Prac­ti­tion­ers Act 2020

• Home Build­ing Act 1989

• Stra­ta Schemes Man­age­ment Act 2015

• Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act 1999

• Envi­ron­men­tal Plan­ning and Assess­ment Act 1979

• Work Health and Safe­ty Act 2011

• Nation­al Con­struc­tion Code