The Lounge Room Was Not Meant to Be the Drainage Outlet

Water ingress in buildings young and old often has a common starting point: design coordination gaps that are left for resolution on site.

Drainage paths, balcony, planter, podium, wet area falls, set downs and membrane terminations are just some of the building elements that are documented across separate drawings, schedules and trades. Each item may appear reasonable in isolation, but water does not read drawings in isolation.

It finds the unresolved gaps.

By the time these issues reach site, the opportunity to resolve them properly may already be constrained by structure, levels, procurement, sequencing or cost. The result can be a detail that depends too heavily on workmanship, undocumented material performance, site interpretation or a last minute compromise.

For existing buildings, remedial water ingress consulting is about tracing the visible defect back to the condition that allowed water to enter. That may be a design issue, a construction issue, a maintenance issue, or a combination of all three.

For buildings yet to be built, waterproofing design peer review is about identifying those same risks before they become built conditions. The most valuable time to do this is during design development, before tender documentation is finalised and before the site team is left to solve unresolved interfaces under pressure.

Watershed Projects works with developers, architects, engineers, builders, strata managers, owners corporations and project teams to investigate water ingress in existing buildings and review waterproofing design risk in projects yet to be built.

The aim is simple: resolve water ingress risk early in design while it is still manageable, not after it has reached the lounge room floor.

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