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INDUSTRY NEWS
Arconic Cladding Firm Employee Criticised in Grenfell Report says Deaths ‘a Tragedy’
Spotlight on Andre Lim of William Roberts Lawyers
Andre is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Combustible Cladding Class Actions (Alucobond and Vitrabond)
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast
Grenfell: Building a Disaster – Ep 3: Bad Behaviour
Sharjah: Fire-hazardous Cladding Removed from 20 More Buildings Across UAE
Flammable Cladding Helped Fire Spread Across Apartments – BBC News
UK Remediation Enforcement Unit Signposted for Building Safety Regulator
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT !
CSV Publishes Study on Non-Cladding Building Defects [PDF]
Up in Smoke: Video of Testing of Flammable Cladding on UAE Buildings
LEGAL NEWS
Body Corporate Argues ACP on Meriton Tower in the Brisbane CBD Constitute an Undue Risk of Fire Spread Via the Facade of the Building
Body Corporate for Infinity 1 Community Titles Scheme 45404 v Queensland Building and Construction Commission & Anor [2025] QCAT 54 (7 February 2025) (Declassified)
• The Meriton tower is a very tall building in the Brisbane CBD. It was completed in April 2014. It features sunscreens attached to floor slabs. The horizontal sunscreens consist of a polyethylene core encapsulated in aluminium, commonly known as aluminium composite panels (ACPs). If the Meriton tower was constructed today it would not have ACPs attached as sunscreens as use of such material as part of, or attached to, the exterior of a building was essentially prohibited following the Lacrosse building fire in Melbourne in 2014 and the Grenfell tragedy in London 2017.
• When the Meriton tower was constructed and certified the relevant building code permitted the use of sunscreens constructed, in part, of combustible material polyethylene is combustible if they did not constitute an undue risk of fire spread via the facade of the building. In these proceedings the applicant argues that the ACPs constitute an undue risk of fire spread via the facade of the building.
• [3] This is an application to review a decision of the Queensland Building and Construction Commission (Commission) not to direct the second respondent (contractor) to rectify the ACPs. The applicant (Body Corporate) is a volumetric lot Community Titles Scheme body corporate that controls common property that generally falls between levels 25 to 64 of the Meriton tower.
https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/qld/QCAT/2025/54.html
https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/nsw/NSWLEC/2025/1060.html
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