[200William-EC SP67851] Automatic Defibrillator for the building

Tue Dec 3 21:20:19 AEDT 2019

On 3/12/19 6:56 pm, Creighton, Adam wrote:
> This is a laudable thought Matt.
> I'm not opposed, although just aware of what other things we have to 
> fork out for over summer.
> Should the tiles be patched up on the western side? They stick up a 
> lot and someone could trip/slip.
> what do others think?
Repair of the tiles was voted on at the AGM as part of the roof repair 
it was voted down im not sure where we go from here. Any fixes involved 
restoration of the membrane etc I dont know what the path forward is 
there. Open to suggestions.
>
> BTW, on a separate matter, I think we need to consider some sort of 
> review of the BMC costs. They seem extraordinarily high.
Happy to go through your points.
> $60k on elect,
This is mostly hot water. Our building derives almost all of it's hot 
water from electricity. It uses efficient heat pump technology to 
produce hot water which is more economical than gas generally. We use 
gas for a backup to our hot water capacity.  The rest is lifts. Cooling 
tower and lights.  There is a proposal to change the lights to led. 
which would save a little bit We might get it down to $55k  There's not 
much left there. Remember every apartment's bulk of hot water charges 
are in that figure.
> $15k on water,
That sounds quite normal for a building of our size with a cooling 
tower. During the summer months over spray and evaporation counts for a 
lot. Avis have their own meter and I dont believe there is anywhere 
beside Sydney water we can get our water from. So unsure what we can do 
here. (other then turning off the HVAC) Most more modern development use 
heat pump split systems rather then cooling towers. But we are stuck 
with how the building was built.
> $15k on fire services when 22 Macleay St, a 6 story building, pays $1k.

There have been a large amount of restorations to the fire this year. 
The building was not complaint for a number of reasons (mostly defects) 
as well as the fire pump died and had to be replaced.  I also think our 
old fire guys were way to expensive and also told us work was required 
that was not. I picked up on a number of these issues and as result in 
the last 3 - 4 months we have changed fire people. It should be greatly 
reduced next year.

> I'm off to London this Friday to  cover the UK election - exciting! - 
> but i want to go through every line when i get back and work out if we 
> can get cheaper providers.
>
Dont forget Andrew needs to agree if he does not it's deadlock and 
nothing happens.  It's hard to get him in a room let alone to agree.  
Would be good to see it lower. Most of our wasted money I think is not 
in the BMC but in repairs on non - existent problems wish hope will 
improve.

All the best good luck in the UK.

Matt

> At the current level of quarterly srtata, i worry our flats our near 
> unsellable.
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2019 at 14:59, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au 
> <mailto:matt at spectrum.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>      I note that a few buildings im involved with have added an Automatic
>     Defibrillator to be installed in a common area within the building.
>     They can be used in case of heart attack to resuscitate an
>     individual by
>     untrained person.  Studies how that people that suffer a heart attack
>     and are not resuscitated with 10 minutes usually do not recover.
>     Pricing for these units is between about $1200 for the cheaper
>     models up
>     to $2000 for ones that automatically call the ambulance.  I would be
>     interested in your thoughts on our building getting one perhaps
>     placed
>     on level 7 in the lift lobby.
>
>     Kind Regards
>
>     Matt.
>
>
>
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