{"id":672,"date":"2017-06-24T12:19:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T02:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/?p=672"},"modified":"2017-08-25T07:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T21:17:26","slug":"claddingfire-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"Cladding\/Fire Concerns&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents, Owners and Agents,<\/p>\n<p>Following the recent horrific and tragic event at Grenfell Towers in London, there have been a few inquiries asking if Aspire Apartments has the same or similar cladding.\u00a0 I thought it prudent to send a blanket email out to everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Please allow me to assure interested parties that Aspire Apartments was built with 100% Australian compliant materials, and 100% NSW compliant fire safety design.\u00a0 The building is a concrete structure, with some paneling by way of painted fibre board on parts on the building.\u00a0 Fibre board is essentially compressed concrete and is a \u00a0not combustible material.<\/p>\n<p>Compulsory monthly, six monthly and annual inspections take place.\u00a0 Last recent annual inspection saw access to ALL apartments and we passed with the exception of 1 smoke alarm which has since been replaced.\u00a0 100% access and compliance such as this for an annual inspection is very rare.\u00a0 We made the decision prior to this year\u2019s annual inspection to replace smoke alarm batteries at the Owners Corporation cost ($750), to ensure that all alarms have charged batteries and get replaced yearly.<\/p>\n<p>I have placed the Owners Corporation manual up onto the \u201c<em>Owner\u2019s Manuals<\/em>\u201d page on our website for reference.\u00a0 The page can be accessed: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/?page_id=64\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, and the document is named \u201c<em>Aspire Body Corporate Manual \u2013 Final<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 This manual was supplied to the Owners Corporation by the builder (Hindmarsh Constructions) upon building handover.\u00a0 It contains all required certifications and certificates relating to fire compliance, the materials used and their Australian Standards certification detail.\u00a0 The direct link to the document can be found here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Aspire-Body-Corporate-Manual-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rest assured, Aspire Apartments is a very safe and compliant building.<\/p>\n<p>Strata Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents, Owners and Agents, Following the recent horrific and tragic event at Grenfell Towers in London, there have been a few inquiries asking if Aspire Apartments has the same or similar cladding.\u00a0 I thought it prudent to send a blanket email out to everyone. Please allow me to assure interested parties that Aspire Apartments was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireapartmentssydney.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}