Tag: cladding
Due to recent events, the cladding issue has provoked debate and the safety of building façades has become a pressing issue. Shapeshell and its parent company Shapeshift Design Technologies have been at the forefront of appropriate full-scale fire testing and have found, despite rising tensions surrounding cladding, new does not have to mean risky...
"When asked if a fire like Grenfell could happen in Australia, our answer is a positive yes." Scott Williams of the FPA weighs in on the compliance debate.
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in London and the Lacrosse tower fire in Melbourne, an expert taskforce has been established to investigate the extent of non-compliant cladding on Victorian buildings.
Image above by Peter Clarke. The Buildings Appeal Board has come down with a ruling for the Lacrosse Tower in Docklands, Melbourne – requiring the high-risk balcony cladding to be removed. In November 2014, a fire tore up the north-eastern side of the building, sparked by a cigarette disposed of in a plastic container on […]
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