CCN – The Latest Updates, News, and Alerts on Combustible Cladding (Breaking News)
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INDUSTRY NEWS
New Cladding Launched Yesterday Claims to be World’s Safest Fire-Resistant Cladding (Breaking News)
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/soQeSrFRAAkMcfT#pdfviewer
Brisbane Company Launches Fire-Resistant Cladding (Breaking News)
https://www.australianpropertyjournal.com.au/2021/04/21/brisbane-company-launches-fire-resistant-cladding/
New Report Outlines Four Safe Non-flammable Cladding Products
A panel of experts have now identified four, safe, options that can be specified for use as part of the Australian Government’s Cladding Replacement Program
https://www.urban.com.au/news/nsw-report-outlines-4-safe-non-flammable-cladding-products
Cladding Safety Victoria (CSV) On Track to Remove Combustible Cladding from the State’s Highest Risk Public Buildings by End of The Year (Breaking News)
https://www.insideconstruction.com.au/section/industry-news/cladding-removal-on-track-for-public-buildings/
NSW Government Commits that Combustible Cladding on More than 200 High Risk Buildings to be Removed in NSW by End of Year (Breaking News)
https://thewest.com.au/news/health/combustible-cladding-to-be-removed-in-nsw-c-2630750
CSV Announces Owners Corporation Registration for Combustible Cladding
Cladding Safety Victoria works with owners and owners corporations to help them rectify non-compliant cladding by providing support, guidance and connections to appropriately registered and qualified practitioners.
The CSV aim is simple – support owners and occupiers to ensure Victorian buildings with combustible cladding are rectified and deemed safe to occupy long term.
Completing this application will enable Cladding Safety Victoria to assist owners corporations in this aim.
https://engage.vic.gov.au/owners-corporation-registration
Aluminium Core v Solid Aluminium: Fire Safety & Beyond (2nd June 2021)
https://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/cpd-live/aluminum-core-v-solid-aluminium-fire-safety-beyond
High-Rise Owners to Get Government Advice About Safe Replacement Cladding
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/high-rise-owners-to-get-government-advice-about-safe-replacement-cladding-20210416-p57jr8.html
New Port Apartment Residents Given 12-month Deadline to Remove Flammable Aluminium Cladding
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/new-port-apartment-residents-given-12month-deadline-to-remove-flammable-aluminium-cladding/news-story/dfcf6fbbc9bc1fe171b6423ac3ee543a
Digital News Platform Combustible Cladding News (CCN) Now Clocks More than 20,000 Subscribers
https://www.claddingnews.com/
LEGAL
Combustible Cladding—Limitation Expiry is No Excuse for Inadequate Particulars (Naylor v Roamquest)
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a9b8d055-6363-49b1-8506-c0ffbe8f2a51
Lacrosse Tower – Cladding Developments Down Under
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1b52887a-9e13-4ee8-b869-bbf1dd0b2d5e
NEW WEBINARS
Fairview Webinar on Combustible Cladding Legislation (22nd April 2021) (TODAY!!!)
https://wideformatonline.com/news/wide-format-news/11094-fairview-webinar-on-combustible-cladding-legislation.html
BlueChip Webinar – Aluminium Core v Solid Aluminium: Fire Safety & Beyond (2nd June 2021)
https://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/cpd-live/aluminum-core-v-solid-aluminium-fire-safety-beyond
NEW REPORTS
Building Defects and Their Impact on Fire Safety
https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/building-control-news/fire-risk-safety/92197/
True Cost of Cladding Remediation Works Could Hit £50bn
https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/building-control-news/cladding-remediation-50bn/92187/
Beyond Minimum: Proposition for Building Surveyors to Exceed the Minimum Standards of the Construction Code
https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/(ASCE)LA.1943-4170.0000463
CLADDING TESTING
Premium Testing Service for Cladding Fire Risk Assessment – ExcelPlas Cladding Testing Laboratory
Our laboratories provide specialist cladding and facades testing services, from identification, compositional analysis and combustibility risk.
Our accredited laboratories in Melbourne are renowned as the foremost lab in Australia for cladding testing.
https://www.claddingtest.com/
CLADDING NEWS
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Step-by-Step Guide For Evaluating the Combustibility Risk of Cladding
https://www.claddingtest.com/
Australian NATA Testing Laboratory Offers Cladding Identification and Testing Services (to determine Combustibility Risk Profile)
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Melbourne Testing Lab for Testing of Architectural Cladding Materials and Combustibility Risk
ExcelPlas now performs Positive Material Identification (PMI) and Combustibility Rating (CR) on architectural cladding such as Aluminium Composite Materials ACM, Aluminium Composite Panels ACP, Expanded Polystyrene Panels EPS, Polyisocyanuarate Foam Panels PIC and others.
We have extensive experience with testing of polymers and polymeric building materials.
As a Nationally Accredited Testing Laboratory, our technicians, equipment and quality system are monitored regularly for proficiency and compliance assuring that you can count on quality results every time.
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