Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Builders Collective petitioning for a Royal Commission 41Oct 09, 2019 5:13 pm Effective Regulation promotes industry standards which minimises risk for players, which will reduce the risk premiums currently factored into pricing and will result in lower costs across the industry. It will also promote standardisation and economies of scale which will reduce costs. With more certainty industry players will be encouraged to invest in new cost saving technologies that will reduce product costs. The current low trust and fragmented ‘wild west’ building industry increases costs. Industry groups such as the HIA should be promoting standards and their effective regulation if they want their members to be competitive in the future versus imported prefabricated homes and low cost, low skilled imported labour. Consumers will vote with their wallets. USA style trade barriers won’t be an option here to protect the current sloppy and inefficient ‘cottage’ industry from disruption. Re: Builders Collective petitioning for a Royal Commission 42Oct 12, 2019 5:54 am Norfolk Effective Regulation promotes industry standards which minimises risk for players, which will reduce the risk premiums currently factored into pricing and will result in lower costs across the industry. A succinct summation. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Builders Collective petitioning for a Royal Commission 43Oct 27, 2019 12:08 pm The ABC program 7.30 has been doing a number of reports into the building industry recently. This one entitled Buyer Beware which aired this week is worth watching. https://iview.abc.net.au/show/7-30-special-buyer-beware The program covers home building problems as well as problems with apartments - in particular the impossibility of accessing home warranty insurance and we really need to know why nothing has been done about this so far. Everybody has been talking about it for years. It's also interesting that one of the affected apartment owners is a surveyor so not unfamiliar with the industry you would have thought. The issue of overheating in apartment buildings is also raised. This is due to the prevalence of curtain wall construction with no balconies and lots of glass. Re: Builders Collective petitioning for a Royal Commission 44Dec 13, 2019 7:55 am In the news today: Building projects halted as surveyors face rocketing insurance costs due to cladding crisis See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-13/ ... g/11771668 Building surveyors are facing skyrocketing insurance bills because of the flammable cladding crisis. One surveyor said his insurance had jumped 800 percent in a single year from $10,000 to close on $100,000. A national survey shows nearly 60 per cent of surveyors said they had increased their fees. One surveyor said he will be increasing his fees by 300 percent next year to cover the additional insurance costs. And about 11 per cent said they were no longer doing surveying work because of insurance issues. If that means my building surveyor has left the industry, it can only be a good thing for all of us. Both the insurers and the Victorian Government are calling for a national approach to resolving the insurance crisis. Whatever that means... It isn't really an insurance issue, it's a building issue. Re: Builders Collective petitioning for a Royal Commission 45Dec 13, 2019 3:03 pm Liliana In the news today: Building projects halted as surveyors face rocketing insurance costs due to cladding crisis See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-13/ ... g/11771668 Building surveyors are facing skyrocketing insurance bills because of the flammable cladding crisis. One surveyor said his insurance had jumped 800 percent in a single year from $10,000 to close on $100,000. A national survey shows nearly 60 per cent of surveyors said they had increased their fees. One surveyor said he will be increasing his fees by 300 percent next year to cover the additional insurance costs. And about 11 per cent said they were no longer doing surveying work because of insurance issues. If that means my building surveyor has left the industry, it can only be a good thing for all of us. Both the insurers and the Victorian Government are calling for a national approach to resolving the insurance crisis. Whatever that means... It isn't really an insurance issue, it's a building issue. It's a very interesting space to see what is going to happen. It's about mitigation, reduce the risk with tighter regulations and the regulators actually regulating, then hopefully for the future we will not be in this mess that we are in today. This is also a step forward. https://www.insurancenews.com.au/daily/claims-handling-in-sights-as-draft-bill-released?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20insuranceNEWScomau&utm_content=Daily%20insuranceNEWScomau+CID_a99b0b2979b417a179401ad526e34d65&utm_source=EmailCampaign&utm_term=Claims%20handling%20in%20sights%20as%20draft%20bill%20released Re: Builders Collective petitioning for a Royal Commission 46Dec 13, 2019 3:39 pm Harts This is also a step forward. https://www.insurancenews.com.au/daily/ ... 20released I wonder if this will apply to Builders Warranty Insurance? Which can't correctly be termed insurance since the money never goes for the purpose for which it was collected. Look at your bill from the electricity company. It should detail the charges. You will need to do some estimating and some calculations. 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