Received a Building Notice or Order? Specialist response across Melbourne & Victoria

A Building Notice asks the owners to show cause why the building should not be brought into compliance. Left unresolved, it can be followed by a Building Order that directs the work. Both are statutory instruments under the Building Act 1993 and both carry response dates. An order directs the work, and compliance with an order is mandatory. Whatever stage yours is at, the response is the same: an engineered scope, delivered and certified.

Yes. A Letter of Action is not a statutory notice. It is the step before one: the municipal surveyor naming a defect and a date and directing the owners to act. Respond at the letter stage and the committee keeps control before formal enforcement begins. The pathway with us does not change. We audit the building against the letter, engineer the scope, deliver the works and certify the close-out, so the matter is resolved on the record, not deferred.

Yes. Whether the order sits with the builder, a subcontractor or the developer, the defects still have to be fixed to the standard the order sets, by its compliance date. We engineer the scope against the order's description of the defective work and the action it requires, deliver it on the occupied building, and hand over a documented, certified close-out so compliance with the order can be confirmed.

Possibly. Since 1 July 2026 the BPC can order the builder, and for apartment buildings the developer, to fix defective, incomplete or non-compliant work up to 10 years after occupancy, including buildings completed before the new law. The BPC expects the defects to have been raised with the builder first, and it decides whether an order is issued. We can inspect and document the defects so your committee's position is specific and evidenced, then deliver the rectification when the time comes.

Often, no. The National Construction Code is a performance-based code, and a Performance Solution is one of its recognised compliance pathways. Developed by a qualified fire engineer and accepted by the building surveyor, it can retain compliant-performing elements and target the genuine risk areas instead of blanket removal. Where the evidence does not support it, we tell you before the engineering begins, with a straight comparison of both paths.

Insurers price documented risk. An open defect with no resolution pathway is what drives loadings, conditions and declined renewals. Certified rectification, backed by a panel-by-panel record of the works, is the evidence your broker takes back to market. We involve the insurer early in the process rather than presenting them with a finished position.

A senior remediation specialist attends the building within 48 hours of your enquiry and assesses the façade, the access and the defect the notice names. You then receive a compliance roadmap and a fixed Design & Construct proposal your committee can table at its next meeting. The audit and the roadmap cost nothing and carry no obligation.

Yes, occupied buildings are our specialty. Residential towers, government headquarters, hotels and campuses have all remained fully operational through our projects. At Wellington Parade, residents slept behind the very walls being remediated and not one was displaced. Access, noise, safety and presentation are engineered around your occupants from day one.