How BMAUS banded together to ensure seamless valet service during lockdown. The Tower Apartments, located atop the Swissotel in Market Street, is home to numerous high-profile reisdents, many of whom have key frontline roles in healthcare and other sectors.

For building managers, ensuring the safety of a building’s residents is a top priority – and that includes protecting occupants and the building from fire. Automatic fire sprinklers are one of the most effective…

Our Senior Administration Manager, Lana Males, not only brings more than 10 years’ experience in administration to her role at Building Management Australia (BMAUS), but also a varied and wide skillset and a passion for excellence and teamwork.

At BMAUS, Asset Registers are much more than simply ‘laundry’ lists of fixed assets: well-maintained registers can help improve a building’s operational efficiency, reduce costs, preserve its value, and improve the comfort, safety and security of residents.

The pandemic has put building ventilation in the spotlight – particularly the quality and quantity of air it circulates. And now more than ever – since HVAC ventilation systems were first widely introduced – it’s crucial they are regularly and properly maintained to help ensure a clean and safe environment, as well as optimal performance and cost efficiency.

Cooling towers provide a cost-effective and energy-efficient operation of systems in need of cooling – i.e., heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) – and it’s crucial that they are strictly maintained to reduce the risk of system damage and health issues…

“Is the fire under control and is it going to spread to another part of the building?” These are two of the most important questions we ask the firies when we arrive at the scene of a fire in any of the buildings we manage.

At Building Management Australia (Bmaus), we’re proud of our unique, purpose-designed reporting system. It provides a myriad of benefits for strata managers and Owners Corporations.

We understand that NSW Health’s recent ‘blockdown’ announcement, whereby an entire apartment building can be locked down when a resident tests positive, may be causing concern for the residents of the many buildings we manage across Sydney. To help allay concerns and provide some clarity on this new health order, we’ve compiled the following information

I’m often asked why I started Building Management Australia. My response: I recognised a need to maintain the property developer’s vision for their buildings, the vision they bring to life with lifestyle features, amenities and services.

Preventative maintenance not only saves Owners Corporations money but keeps their buildings looking and performing at their best best.

Reducing a proposed full power outage from a full week to just three hours for one CBD building, and ensuring the safety and security of thousands of residents, hotel guests, office workers and shoppers when Ausgrid cut power to Sydney’s World Tower are ‘all in a day’s work’ for our building management teams.

Today’s Building Management Systems (BMS) play a vital role in helping Building Managers create and maintain more comfortable, healthy, safe, cost-efficient and ‘greener’ buildings.

How is your building coping with increased parcel deliveries? If its foyer is an obstacle course of boxes and perplexed couriers laden with packages, odds are your residents are yearning for a better solution – and fast.

Florbela ‘Bela’ Caxala is no stranger to property. Indeed, over the past 12 years her career has focused on property – from past admin roles in shopping centre management and property development, to her work as an Executive Team Assistant at leading property services firm JLL, all of which have given her a wide skillset and invaluable insights into the property industry.

With winter fast approaching – the season of heaters and electric blankets – now is the time for Building Owners and Managing Agents to check their building’s fire safety measures and ensure the Annual Fire Safety Statement (AFSS) is up to date.

A clean, well-presented building not only creates a more attractive, comfortable and enjoyable environment for your residents, it helps maintain your building’s market appeal.
The right cleaners also create a healthier and safer environment too.

The role of a Building Manager has always been a hard job description to define. I read once that it combines the same skill sets as a hotel manager and, say, a ship’s engineer.

With a 20-year background in TV, film and advertising, Annette Morris may not be your typical building management Relationship Manager, however, her past experience has given her valuable expertise that she regularly draws on in her current role at Building Management Australia (Bmaus).

They all play key roles in strata-title buildings but who does what exactly? Each one plays a vital but different role in community living and working. To help explain the differences, we provide an overview below: