Waterproofing in Melbourne CBD
Podium decks, basement car parks and towers that started life as offices. All of it occupied, all of it staged around the people using it.
The Melbourne CBD buildings we get called to
Converted office towers
Wet areas installed on slabs never designed to have them. When one fails it does not stay on its own floor - it follows the slab and appears two or three levels down.
Podium decks and terraces
Landscaping, pool surrounds and paving sitting directly over lobbies, plant rooms and apartments. The membrane is under all of it, so by the time it shows inside, everything has to come up to reach it.
Basement car parks
Below-ground water under constant pressure rather than running off, so a defect is permanent rather than occasional. Damp patches, efflorescence out of the joints, rust staining on the slab soffit.
What we do in Melbourne CBD
All of it, everywhere we work. These are the ones Melbourne CBD calls us about most.
Why Melbourne CBD is built the way it is
A large part of the CBD’s housing was never built as housing. From the early 1990s empty office buildings were converted to apartments, and an office floorplate has wet areas in one service core while an apartment floor has a bathroom in every unit - over a slab that was never tanked for it.
Permits, if it ever comes to that
The CBD is the one place where paperwork is routine rather than rare, because there is usually nowhere to put a hoist or a materials drop except the footpath, and that needs a permit to occupy public space. We price it and arrange it as part of the job.