10 | INDUSTRY NEWS
STORCAD ARE TICKING ALL THE BOXES FOR STORELOCAL StoreLocal’s newest site is located at 1 Salmon Close Cranebrook NSW. Storcad Self Storage Design, designed the self storage component. It is being constructed by Western Sydney Constructions. Consisting of high end commercial warehouses, each with quality offices, plus an onsite café. The three level self storage building has man caves on the ground floor which also include a small mezzanine. The self storage
component is installed into the first and second floor of the building and accessed through an undercover drive through where the lift is located. The site will be managed by StoreLocal, their first site in Sydney. This will also be one of the first sites in Australia to have the new KAS electronic door lock system provided by Sentinel (this means no more padlocks). There is no set opening date yet but it will be within the next two months.
APOLOGY: In Insider issue 113 we incorrectly referred to Mark Snooks as Martin Snooks. This was an editorial mistake.
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Fort Knox Self Storage West Melbourne just got a whole lot greener – with rooftop solar! Their good friends at Enervest in Camberwell were tasked with adding 248 solar panels, at 400W each on the West Melbourne site roof. This has given a system that is 99.2kW, which will generate approximately 132467.66kWh of electricity per year, and save 150 tonnes of toxic CO2 emissions. In addition to powering the self storage site they are also feeding green electricity into the grid for our Melbourne city neighbours. In 2014, they began a solar program with the installation of 240 panels at the Scoresby site. In 2018 this grew to 1514 panels across 6 sites. Now there’s 1762 solar panels covering 7 out of 10 Fort Knox Self Storage sites. With each new solar system installation, they are getting closer to achieving their sustainability goals.
INSIDER 114 AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2020
Aon are implementing a distribution authorisation model with self storage operator clients which will allow them the benefit of relief under ASIC Corporations (Basic Deposit and General Insurance Product Distribution) Instrument 2015/682 in order to distribute insurance under Aon’s Australian Financial Services License (AFSL). AON have assessed that the activities performed by self storage operators in arranging cover would be considered a “financial service” for which they would need to be licensed or authorised under an AFSL in order to perform. Aon will shortly be providing to all members utilising Aon’s services with a Distributor Agreement and a Compliance Kit. If you have any queries in relation to the Distributor Agreement or Compliance Kit or any further documentation you receive from Aon, please do not hesitate to contact Aon.
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