Building Remediation

Remediation usually starts with investigation — establishing why a defect is occurring before any repair is specified. Treating the symptom without addressing the cause is one of the most common reasons remediation works fail or need to be repeated.

From there, the work moves to scoping, selecting an appropriate repair system, carrying out the works and verifying the outcome. On apartment buildings this is often staged across common property and coordinated with owners and strata managers.

Typical building remediation covers waterproofing and water ingress, concrete repair and remedial construction, façade and balcony rectification, basement waterproofing and crack injection. Each has its own causes, repair methods and material systems.

The Defect Library sets out these defects by category, cause, risk and repair pathway, and the Repair Systems reference covers the products and methods used to remediate them.

A well-defined scope keeps a remediation project on track and makes quotes comparable. The AI Scope Builder helps you structure a scope of works, and independent expert advice can review defects, scopes and budgets before you commit.