Take Blues Point Tower, a 25-storey apartment building built 60 years ago. It needed complete windows and doors replacement and repair of the brick façade.
The work was put out to tender with an incomplete scope of works and drawings. You can guess what happened. The work required was more extensive. The builder issued cost variations which the strata scheme had not budgeted for. The NSW Supreme Court said the strata scheme must pay for the additional works.
The takeaway is that façade renovations need a proper scope of works to avoid costs blowing out. See: