The building and construction industry will be the next main target of the taxman’s attempts to claw-back revenue lost due to the illegal cash economy. The Australian Taxation Office has visited over 1000 building and construction small businesses over the past financial year to talk with them about their tax and superannuation obligations. Sydney homeowner [...]
How Are We Going to Stop It? A rant by Paul Evans - AIW President I feel it necessary to call out those in the construction industry who are building defective buildings right from the ‘get go’ and walking away, leaving a massive trail of distress, destruction, disheartened public. As a remedial builder and specialist [...]
With thanks to Ron Caruana from Danrae Group The men and women in charge of our organizations are now faced with uncharted challenges: leading their organization through a global pandemic. In this time of crisis, most leaders are doing their best to step up and inspire people to do their best. And they’re doing a [...]
Hello to all AIW Members In these uncertain times it is difficult to know what the future will hold, but if we keep our spirts up and work as hard as possible, we will come through this. The economic uncertainty should have all members looking at the way they trade and not being left out [...]
There is much confusion about the mechanism and requirements of the Victorian Government changes to Register and Licence Trades, including Waterproofing. In Queensland and New South Wales, the State Governments have already gone down the path of registering Trades. The problem of building defects and consumer confidence in the industry still remains. In Victoria the [...]
It is a common question. What is the Security of Payment Act? The most many contractors can say about it is that they refer to it on the bottom of their invoices. But what is it and how does it work? In short; Security of Payment is a process whereby a dispute over payment gets [...]
Risk management and planning are essential tools for any waterproofing business owner to actively use and utilise. Waterproofing failure is one of the most often mentioned issues facing the building industry today. There are far too many horror stories to ignore. Waterproofing is an essential item in a building program, and let’s face it a [...]
It is unfortunate that the proposed mandatory inspections for wet area waterproofing in the new Victorian Building Regulation for 2018 was defeated by pressure from the Building Surveyors. Thus, the defects and standard of waterproofing will continue to have little ‘policing’ pressure for both builders and the problem in the new regulations effective 2nd June [...]
The Building Act 1993 remain, however current the Building Regulation 2006 are to be ‘sunset, replaced by the proposed Building Regulations 2017 (legislated around September) Changes in the 2017 Regulations which affect the waterproofing industry relate to “Part 13 – Inspections notices and Orders; Division 1 – Inspections and Directions; 169. Prescribed mandatory notification stages [...]
With the cold and wet weather in the southern states, it is the usual battle to get applications done. We urge members not to be pressured by those who “want it done” even though there may be a wet substrate! As we all know where that will end up. The AIW is seeing more and [...]
