Australia has more than 3,400 buildings with flammable cladding. In Victoria alone, at least 71 of these buildings have been classified as “extreme risk” and another 368 as “high risk”. Despite the ...

The cladding crisis has escalated with Victoria's building industry in danger of grinding to a halt because building surveyors can no longer get professional indemnity insurance. Landmark Underwriting ...

Metal cladding is on a growth trajectory globally. This is reflected in rising demand for rainscreen cladding, which market research firm VMR values currently at over $10 billion worldwide, and ...

Modern buildings have seen rapid development in recent decades, with a push towards sustainable practices and improved energy efficiency. But the advancement of fire safety has been less prioritised, ...

Plans to remove and replace the current cladding have been submitted to the council Plans to remove cladding from a building in Hull have been submitted to the council. Kemley House, located at the ...

A developer says most residents should be able to remain in their homes during the work.

The new Building Safety Act has been established with good intentions but it may end up creating a more fragmented, litigious environment for developers, contractors and architects, writes Peter ...

State and federal governments in Australia have reacted to the Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London with calls for urgent safety checks into the use of non-fire resistant aluminium composite panel ...

Over the last 12 years or so, I’ve devoted the majority of my professional work to designing stone cladding and glass/aluminum cladding systems, and I’ve seen plenty of errors that could have been ...

Cladding remediation is pressing housebuilders and developers to begin an introspective examination of not only their buildings but their construction processes, explains Mike White, CTO at Zutec. So ...