CCN – The Latest Updates, News, and Alerts on Combustible Cladding (Breaking News)
Reaching more Players in the Cladding Industry
NEWSMAKERS: * ACT Government * ACP * AECOM * Arconic * Cladding Safety Victoria * CladdingTest * Class Action * CCN * CSV * ExcelPlas * Grenfell * Kennedys Law * NSW * Paynter Dixon * Polystyrene Insulation * Remediation * RMIT * VBA * Victorian Government
INDUSTRY NEWS
Is Flammable Polystyrene Insulation the New Cladding Crisis?
https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsnight/videos/is-flammable-insulation-the-new-cladding-crisis/1138297256648738/?-so-permalink&-rv-related_videos
Cladding Safety Victoria (CSV) Seeking Special Counsel for Salary of $229K pa
https://careers.vic.gov.au/job/special-counsel-542348
Cladding Removal on Track for 50 NSW Apartment Buildings
https://thepropertytribune.com.au/industry/residential/cladding-removal-on-track-for-50-nsw-apartment-buildings/
Flammable Cladding on Apartment Complexes Leaves Painful Legacy in Victoria Months After Ban
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-20/victoria-flammable-cladding-apartment-buyers-removal-cost/100228692
Melbourne Engineer Wants to Ensure a Tragedy Like London’s Grenfell Tower Fire Never Happens Again
https://createdigital.org.au/ensuring-grenfell-tower-fire-never-happens-again/
Kennedys Law – Victorian Court Of Appeal Reapportions The Contractors’ Responsibility For Combustible Cladding
https://www.conventuslaw.com/report/australia-the-victorian-court-of-appeal/
Sara Saved for 10 years to Buy Her First Home, Only to Learn it’s ‘a Danger to Life’ Due to Flammable Cladding
https://headtopics.com/au/sara-saved-for-10-years-to-buy-her-first-home-only-to-learn-it-s-a-danger-to-life-20619282
Legal Notes: U.K.’s Grenfell Tower Exposes a Poisoned Decision-Making Culture Due to ‘Error Traps’
https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/government/2021/06/legal-notes-u-k-s-grenfell-tower-exposes-a-poisoned-decision-making-culture-due-to-error-traps
Arconic Marketing Manager Continued Selling Flammable Cladding After Knowing the Risks
Arconic marketing manager Gerard Sonntag admitted this attending a talk given in 2007 by consultant Fred-Roderich Pohl. The risks of ACM cladding were dramatized by Pohl, saying it had the same “fuel power” as a 19,000-litre truck of oil. Despite this, Arconic continued selling the product.
https://canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/government/2021/06/legal-notes-u-k-s-grenfell-tower-exposes-a-poisoned-decision-making-culture-due-to-error-traps
CLADDING REMEDIATION
Experienced Team the Key to Remediating Flammable Cladding
https://www.paynterdixon.com.au/experienced-team-the-key-to-remediating-flammable-cladding/
GRENFELL FALLOUT
Video – Britain’s Cladding Scandal is Getting Worse and Working its Way Onto Everyone’s Doorstep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IOEYucI2jE
Four Years After Grenfell and Understanding of the Fire Safety Issues Raised Remains Murky
https://www.ft.com/content/a3010ab7-dd7d-464f-968e-33ff4f7ec42b
“Footing the Bill for the Cladding Crisis will Cost More Than My Flat”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/footing-the-bill-for-the-cladding-crisis-will-cost-more-than-my-flat-xhbljdzkx
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!
ACT Government Sets Up Register of Potential Suppliers of Non-Combustible Cladding for Rectification Program
https://www.act.gov.au/majorprojectscanberra/our-projects/act-cladding-rectification-program/register-of-potential-suppliers
Recent Changes to Cladding Rectification Legislation in Victoria
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=260ad71d-d07e-4da0-a85d-cf69461cddc3
Floodgates Open as Dozens of NSW Strata Communities Register for Cladding Removal
https://www.insurancenews.com.au/daily/dozens-of-nsw-strata-communities-register-for-cladding-removal
Flammable Cladding Fixes On Track for NSW Buildings
https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/nsw-combustible-composite-cladding-remidiation
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/
Do You Have Any Cladding Industry News? – Get in Touch
https://www.excelplas.com/contact-us/
Want More Cladding News?
https://www.claddingnews.com/
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)
http://www.excelplas.com/
This Newsletter is brought to you by ExcelPlas Labs Australia’s Largest group of Polymer Building Materials Testing Labs.
http://www.excelplas.com/
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.
https://www.claddingtest.com/
Earlier Issues of This Newsletter Can Be Viewed Here:
https://www.claddingtest.com/archives/
Any news requests should be sent to [email protected]
To subscribe, visit https://www.claddingtest.com/subscribe/
CCN is owned and operated by ExcelPlas Pty Ltd. By subscribing to CCN you agree to receiving regular CCN newsletters as well as the CCN platform using your email contact details to enhance the performance and functionality of CCN and its analytics reports. These email contact details allow CCN to track page views and create more targeted and relevant content. CCN provides an unsubscribe link on the bottom of each CCN newsletter.