by Core4 Services | Mar 26, 2020 | Body Corporates, Commercial and Industrial, Hospitality, Retail |
The coronavirus crisis has shown us Australians need to be prepared ahead of a catastrophe. But when life returns to normal, we may fall into old habits of not planning ahead. Current events have shaken us, but typically we’re a nation where half of us don’t have a...
by Core4 Services | Mar 7, 2020 | Body Corporates, Commercial and Industrial, Hospitality, Retail |
Spare a thought for these luxury car owners whose vehicles were parked in a basement garage when a mega storm struck Singapore in 2011. Amazing cars worth millions of dollars, including a Lamborghini Gallardo, a Ferrari and a Rolls Royce Phantom, were wrecked when the...
by Core4 Services | Jan 9, 2020 | Body Corporates, Commercial and Industrial |
Construction was a hot media topic in 2019, with a raft of stories about combustible cladding, collapsing apartments, and crooked contractors. With so much drama, you may have missed a report that the most common type of building defect in Australia is actually water...
by Core4 Services | Dec 20, 2019 | Body Corporates, Commercial and Industrial, Hospitality, Retail |
If you’re wondering what that chalky white substance building up on your brick walls or outdoor pavers is, there’s a word for it: efflorescence. It sounds pretty, but efflorescence is an ugly problem for building owners and managers. In a nutshell, efflorescence is a...
by Core4 Services | Dec 10, 2019 | Commercial and Industrial, Hospitality, Retail |
In Australia it seems like everyone’s an expert on renovations. We all rate different contestants on The Block … and secretly think we could do better than any of them. Commercial renovations are a different ballpark. Imagine a reality show that tackled a Brisbane CBD...
by Core4 Services | Dec 2, 2019 | Body Corporates, Commercial and Industrial, Hospitality
For first-time tourists visiting the Gold Coast, there’s nothing quite like the stunning sight of the Surfers Paradise skyline. However, the flipside of the high-rise apartment lifestyle is that in South East Queensland we have more than our share of spine-chilling...