Learn more about the origins of the cladding crisis and the shocking statistics of the 60 cladding fires we studied. To borrow from the Midnight Oil anthem for aboriginal land rights, ‘How do we sleep while our beds are burning?’
In the early hour of November 25th, 2014 at Melbourne’s Lacrosse tower, a fire began with a smoldering cigarette on the balcony of apartment 805 left atop a plastic food container.
The New South Wales government has released details about how it will help strata owners remove combustible cladding from the worst affected high-rise buildings in the state. The initiative has been badged, Project Remediate.
This episode dissects the Building Code of Australia (BCA) pathway to compliance for combustible cladding and how the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) has reacted to Aluminium Composite Panels (ACP).
As the combustible cladding blame game escalates focus will turn to the role of strata managers in the supply chain.
Apartment owners with building defects can waste a lot of time and money not knowing what to do when they find out they have significant building defects. Usually, this period of confusion sets in just after the owners receive a building defects inspection report.
This final episode draws parallels to similar situations like New Zealand’s leaky building syndrome of the 1990s to discuss how Australia can best move forward on the pathway to rectification.
Watch or listen as we challenge the assertion that cladding with anything under 30% Polyethylene (PE) content is okay so you can determine for yourself - Are things that burn a little bit ok?
Located in Melbourne’s CBD, the 41-storey Neo 200 residential apartment complex was the site of a damaging combustible cladding fire that broke out on the 22nd floor balcony.
A joint Deakin / Griffith University study, ‘An Examination of Building Defects in Residential Multi Owned Properties’, was coincidentally launched within days of the Opal Tower building evacuation on Christmas eve, 2018. It provided an academic foundation to the intense public and regulatory debate that ensued about the strata building defect crisis.
In business and politics, the end of year holiday season when everyone is distracted by family and fun is notoriously a good time to bring out your dead. And that’s exactly what two high profile apartment construction companies did in the dying day and weeks of 2020.
Final NSW parliamentary report on building defects reveals striking example of continued regulatory failure and high rectification costs for owners
The Grenfell Tower tragedy that began the search for truth about flammable cladding in the construction industry
If there is one group of property owners who have fared badly in the cladding crisis, second only to the fire victims and their families, it is the owners of strata titled apartments. Learn as we explain how their situation is unique and differs from corporate property owners in three ways.
In light of the fire risks associated with external cladding, and regardless of the building materials used, now is a good time to review fire safety of every building.
