Guideline for condition assessment of the building envelope windows#
This type of assessment is a report that speaks to the current condition and performance of your building’s envelope – it’s walls, floors, doors, roof, and fenestrations (the openings in the structure, such as windows or skylights). In working with our condo management clients experiencing aging in their building, we recommend a Building Envelope Assessment (BEA). This means that when a building begins to age and issues appear, a new developer will have to pick up where the old one left off, including repair and warranty work.
But, there is a greater opportunity for these risks to happen as there are typically fewer eyes managing the consistency and quality of work during a boom market.īecause of this abundance of developers during a boom, it’s also important to note that after a boom cycle and through the bust period, a number of these developers may go out of business. It’s important that we highlight that NOT ALL BUILDERS ARE BAD BUILDERS, even during boom cycles, as there is always going to be someone who does good work without cutting corners. While the maintenance and repair work that needs to be done is in part due to normal wear and tear, part of it is due to less than reputable builders from the boom. What we’re seeing now is these buildings developed between 2003 – 2009, buildings in their Childhood Stage as David Albrice calls buildings between 1 – 16 years of age, are now requiring more in-depth repairs and further preventative maintenance to keep up with the typical lifecycle of a building.
And, when we went through the boom in the early – mid 2000s, there was a period where buildings went up and went up fast! Often during booms, we tend to see a plethora of activity within building developments. Markets where everything is happening all the time and then markets where everything is stalled.
The plain truth is that Alberta is a cyclical economy, where we go through steady boom and bust markets.
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