Category: News

Lift Modernisation Project – Villa Lift Replacements – Completed

The villa lift upgrades are scheduled to start at the end of May 2022. The existing hydraulic villa lifts will be replaced with totally new traction lifts. The interior of the villa lifts will be similar to the new tower lift design, except due to weight limitations the floor will be a deluxe dark carpet (similart to the carpet in the lift lobbies) instead of tiles.

The villa lift upgrades will take around 2 months each to complete and during this period, affected residents will need to use the stairs to access their apartments on the higher floors. During this period the security system will be modified to allow affected residents to use the alternative villa lift to access the basement from the ground floor to make things a little easier.

As you are aware the South Villa lift sustained damage during the recent flood and has not been operating since so this lift will be updated first followed by the North lift starting in August 2022.

Also as part of the project the upgrade team will need access to the two car spaces adjacent to the villa lift for equipment storage and to ensure there is no damage to cars during the upgrade. The owners of these affected spaces will be offered alternative space while the work is underway.

If you have any other questions please contact the Buinding Manager or email committee@MacleayTAV.au

 

Lift Modernisation Project – Lift 1-3 Completed

As you are probably aware, our lift refurbishment project is currently underway. The three Tower Lift upgrades have largely been copmpleted and there are some photos below. I hope you will agree that the new interior looks great. The new lifts have a new motors and control systems.  There are still some outstanding operational issues with Lift 1 which, hopefully will be resolved shortly and there are some remaining cosmetic issues, which will be attended to over the next few weeks.

Replacement of the Villa Tower will start around the end of May.

This entire project will take around 18 months to complete and during this period one lift at a time will be out of service, while it is being upgraded. This will cause some delays in lift arrivals and construction noise at times. We ask for everyone’s patience during this period.

This modernisation project will increase the reliability, safety and disability compliance of our lifts.

The approximate project timetable is:
Tower Lift 3 – 03/05/2021 thru 03/09/2021
Tower Lift 2 – 06/09/2021 thru 07/01/2022
Tower Lift 1 – 10/01/2022 thru 29/05/2022
Villa Lift South – 30/06/2022 thru 29/08/2022
Villa Lift North – 01/09/2022 thru  15/11/2022

 

The scope of the project includes:

  • Tower Lifts
    • Replacement of all of the major mechanical and electrical lift components
    • Re-fitting the lift interiors – the physical lift car chassis will be retained
    • Re-polishing/replacement (as required) of the lift door skins on each floor
    • New lift call buttons and indicators on each floor
  • Villa Lifts
    • Total replacement of the lift cars and associated mechanical and electrical components. The existing hydraulic lifts are being replaced with traction lifts.
    • Re-polishing/replacement (as required) of the lift door skins on each floor
    • New lift call buttons and indicators on each floor

Below are some photos of Refurbished Lift 3 and the new design concept for the tower lift interiors and the associated colour samples.

If you have any questions about the Lift Upgrade Project please contact the building manager or the committee at committee@macleaytowerandvillas.com.au

New shorter website address – MacleayTAV.au

A new official internet domain suffix has been released in Australia the “.au”.  People and businesses have been happily using “.com.au” but now we have our own  distinctly Australian domain “.au” without all of the .com stuff!

So to help make it easier to access our website we have added another easier way to connect to your Vertical Village.

You can now just type MacleayTAV.au (all lower case is OK)  and it will send you to https://macleaytowerandvillas.com.au.

Please try it out and we hope you find it more convienent.

Di Cant

Congratulations to our 2022 Australia Day Honours recipient

On behalf of the Body Corporate, the Committee would like to congratulate Macleay resident Di Cant for her award of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) at the Australia Day 2022 Honours presented by the Governor General, for service to the fashion industry and to the community.

For over 40 years, Di Cant has been a leading figure in the Australian fashion industry.  From modelling sportswear in the ’60s to hosting fashion parades at major shopping centres in the ’80s to presenting footwear trends on TV in the ’90s.  In addition, she works for a number of charities, helping raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for cancer research and various children’s causes.

Di joins a number of other distinguished residents of Macleay who have received The Order of Australia awards (recognising Australians who have demonstrated outstanding service or exceptional achievement) in past years including:

Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)

Mr Robert Bowen AO 2017

For distinguished service to community health in Queensland, particularly through not-for-profit research organisations, to medical biotechnology manufacturing and export, and to fostering innovation.

Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

Professor Daryl R Wall AM 2006

Daryl received an Order of Australia for his for service in the field of transplant surgery, to specialist training and support for transplant recipients to resume normal lifestyles.

Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)

Mrs Dianne Cant OAM 2022

For service to the fashion industry and to the community.

 

2021 AGM – ‘Special Resolutions’ Explained

For those of you would could not attend, the Macleay Tower and Villas Annual General Meeting was held on 24th August 2021.

At this meeting there were a number of Motions which proposed changes to the Body Corporate By-Laws. All of these motions passed, except one related to a change in the Pet By-Law and there have been some questions about why it did not pass even though the majority of the votes lodged were in favour of the motion.

The Queensland Strata legislation stipulates that a Motion to change to any Body Corporate By-Law must be by “Special Resolution”. And in order for a special resolution to be passed at a General Meeting, a supermajority is required in favour of it. Supermajority refers to at least 2/3 of the members voting in favour of the resolution. So even though the motion received over 50%, it did not reach the required 2/3 threshold and so was not passed.

If you have any other questions, please contact committee@macleaytowerandvillas.com.au

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