How much are construction companies to experiment? – New Technology

ANALYSIS. Svedala goal of enstegstätade plastered facades, which are treated by the Supreme Court in February, has great significance for the entire construction industry. And there is big money at stake.

target applies some 30 houses in Skåne Svedala, built by Myresjöhus between 1999 and 2003. The design consists of thin plaster on foam.

The question is whether it can be considered wrong in a farm building with the enstegstätade construction.

This means that any utförarfel not taken into consideration. Thus, it is precisely the question that the entire construction Sweden wondering, as the Supreme Court should answer: Was it legally okay, or not, to build the enstegstätade design?

The extension also raises the question of how robust a construction method should be. The enstegstätade design has proved to be extremely sensitive to moisture. It is hard to get detailed connections tight and even small cracks in the plaster can lead to leakage.

In many cases, construction companies just offered repairing water damage but let it enstegstätade structure remain. Construction companies have argued that the method works if done carefully, but homeowners usually have liked to have an air gap because they have lost confidence in the enstegstätade solution.

In the case of the houses in Svedala offered Myresjöhus to pay the deductible to the decennial insurance. But the district court sentenced instead Myresjöhus to pay for a conversion to tvåstegstätad facade. The Court held that enstegslösningen should have been tested and verified before being used more widely.

The Court of Appeal considered that Myresjöhus could not have known problems with frontage type when the houses were built in Svedala, because the alarm came first in 2007.

Homeowners’ lawyer has put considerable effort into trying to prove Supreme Court to moisture problems with the enstegstätade method was known before 2007.

What can be the result rid of this judicial review?

If the Supreme Court rules in favor householders are likely many other owners of houses with enstegstätade facades also to seek reimbursement from its construction companies or insurance companies to Building on a tvåstegstätad construction. It will be an expensive affair for the construction industry. To build a villa of enstegstätade facades to tvåstegstätade can cost approximately SEK 300 000. Approximately 15,000 to 30,000 houses is estimated to have been built with the enstegstätade method. In round figures, the target can thus be about 5-10 billion in the long run.

But if the Supreme Court instead goes on Myresjöhus line it shows that the consumer is powerless against a large construction company. Then the risk that the judgment be seen as carte blanche for construction companies to experiment with new technology at the expense of consumers.

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