CCN – The Latest Updates, News, and Alerts on Combustible Cladding (Breaking News)
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NEWSMAKERS * ACT * ALUCOBOND™ * Aluminium Cladding * ARCONIC * Celotex * Cladding Safety Victoria * CSV * CladdingTest * CCN * ExcelPlas * Fairview * Grenfell * Kingspan * Norton Rose Fulbright * OCN * Perth * RMIT * Wintech * VBA * Vitrabond® * William Roberts
SPECIAL 5TH ANNIVERSAY OF GRENFELL FIRE EDITION
BREAKING NEWS
VBA Accused of Botching Cladding Repair Works
Feud Over ‘Botched’ Cladding Repair Works (Herald Sun)
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/xFlNfmDyrz0x6uT#pdfviewer
Combustible Cladding Still Present at Perth Hospitals, Unis and Schools
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/6oRrW97YYhUn2MO#pdfviewer
Five Years After Grenfell Tragedy Perth Buildings Still Wrapped in Flammable Cladding
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/br0dqXH63ASDI5X#pdfviewer
Corner-Cutting, Cover-ups and a Disregard for human Life: Why Grenfell Really Happened | The Sunday Times (Special Feature)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corner-cutting-cover-ups-and-a-disregard-for-human-life-why-grenfell-really-happened-fsvrdzmsj
The Repercussions of the Grenfell Tower Fire are Far from Over (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/06/09/the-repercussions-of-the-grenfell-tower-fire-are-far-from-over
Almost 10,000 Buildings ‘Unsafe’ with Danger Cladding Five Years on from Grenfell
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/almost-10-000-buildings-unsafe-with-danger-cladding-five-years-on-from-grenfell/
ACT Residential Buildings Remain at Risk of Flammable Cladding | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7775320/act-residential-buildings-remain-at-risk-of-flammable-cladding/
INDUSTRY NEWS
Grenfell, Five Years On: ‘We Know Who the Guilty Are But They Remain Free’
The cladding was manufactured by Arconic, a French company, while the insulation behind it came from Celotex and Kingspan.
Kingspan, which provided some of the insulation for the project, found its Kooltherm K15 product erupted into a “raging inferno” when tested in 2007. When a facade engineering firm, Wintech, questioned if Kingspan’s insulation was suitable for high-rise buildings, Philip Heath, a technical manager, wrote in an email to colleagues: “Wintech can go f— themselves and if they are not careful we will sue the a— [off] them.” In a harrowing text exchange, Arron Chalmers, technical project leader at Kingspan, joked with a colleague about K15 being marketed as safe when it failed fire tests. “All we do is lie in here,” one message read.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/11/grenfell-five-years-know-guilty-remain-free/
Families Who’ve spent £820,000 after Grenfell Tragedy Fear They Won’t Get a Penny Back
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/families-whove-spent-820000-after-27195659
Grenfell’s Legacy Must be an End to Unsafe Homes
Greedy materials companies — Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex Exploited Lax Regulations
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/RB7fHnOduY7k2vd#pdfviewer
I Fear We Could Face Another Grenfell Tower Disaster – THE GUARDIAN
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/12/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-i-fear-we-could-face-another-grenfell
Firms That Refuse to Fund Cladding Repairs Could Face Trading Ban
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/17/firms-who-refuse-to-fund-cladding-repairs-could-face-trading-ban
New Book on Combustible Cladding Just Published
Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry: Cracks, Cladding and Crisis (routledge.com)
LEGAL NEWS
First Substantive Claim Against a Building Contractor Regarding Defective Cladding to Reach the High Court
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-th/knowledge/publications/439ead39/construction-bulletin-martlet-homes-limited-v-mulalley-and-co-limited
Fire Safety – Extension of Combustible Cladding Ban
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/AsHDS9H29dFAVr3#pdfviewer
OTHER NEWS
Five Things to Know Before Recladding (by Fairview)
https://fv.com.au/general-knowledge/5-things-to-know-before-recladding/
New Fire Safety Rules Extend Ban on Combustible Cladding
https://www.roofingtoday.co.uk/new-fire-safety-rules-extend-ban-on-combustible-cladding/
JOBS
Cladding Safety Victoria Seeking Legal Counsel
Applications close on Tuesday 21 June 2022
https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/legal-counsel-at-cladding-safety-victoria-3104859916
Cladding Safety Victoria Seeking Senior Legal Counsel
Applications close on Tuesday 21 June 2022
https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/senior-legal-counsel-at-cladding-safety-victoria-3105910758
https://www.seek.com.au/job/57300007?type=standout
Cladding Safety Victoria Seeking Cladding Program Coordinator (Salary +$125K/a)
https://jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/VG-CSV-C0078
CLADDING CLASS ACTIONS
How to Participate in the Alucobond® Combustible Cladding Class Action
https://www.williamroberts.com.au/ArticleDocuments/333/NSD215.2019-20Main-20Notice-20and-20Opt-20Out-20Form.pdf.aspx
How to Participate in the Vitrabond® Combustible Cladding Class Action
https://www.williamroberts.com.au/ArticleDocuments/333/NSD940.2019 – Notice.pdf.aspx
RAPID CLADDING TESTING SERVICE
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/
MORE COMBUSTIBLE CLADDING NEWS
Do You Have Any Cladding Industry News? – Get in Touch
https://www.excelplas.com/contact-us/
Want More Cladding News?
https://www.claddingnews.com/
Roscon is a specialist provider of property reporting and facilities management services to business in the Owners Corporation and Insurance industries
As expert consultants, Roscon can devise a solution to address any non-compliant claddings. These solutions may be far more cost effective than replacing the entire building facade.
https://www.roscon.com.au/cladding_facade_audits
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/
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NEWSMAKERS * ACT * ALUCOBOND™ * Aluminium Cladding * ARCONIC * Celotex * Cladding Safety Victoria * CSV * CladdingTest * CCN * ExcelPlas * Fairview * Grenfell * Kingspan * Norton Rose Fulbright * OCN * Perth * RMIT * Wintech * VBA * Vitrabond® * William Roberts
SPECIAL 5TH ANNIVERSAY OF GRENFELL FIRE EDITION
BREAKING NEWS
VBA Accused of Botching Cladding Repair Works
Feud Over ‘Botched’ Cladding Repair Works (Herald Sun)
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/xFlNfmDyrz0x6uT#pdfviewer
Combustible Cladding Still Present at Perth Hospitals, Unis and Schools
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/6oRrW97YYhUn2MO#pdfviewer
Five Years After Grenfell Tragedy Perth Buildings Still Wrapped in Flammable Cladding
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/br0dqXH63ASDI5X#pdfviewer
Corner-Cutting, Cover-ups and a Disregard for human Life: Why Grenfell Really Happened | The Sunday Times (Special Feature)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corner-cutting-cover-ups-and-a-disregard-for-human-life-why-grenfell-really-happened-fsvrdzmsj
The Repercussions of the Grenfell Tower Fire are Far from Over (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/06/09/the-repercussions-of-the-grenfell-tower-fire-are-far-from-over
Almost 10,000 Buildings ‘Unsafe’ with Danger Cladding Five Years on from Grenfell
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/almost-10-000-buildings-unsafe-with-danger-cladding-five-years-on-from-grenfell/
ACT Residential Buildings Remain at Risk of Flammable Cladding | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7775320/act-residential-buildings-remain-at-risk-of-flammable-cladding/
INDUSTRY NEWS
Grenfell, Five Years On: ‘We Know Who the Guilty Are But They Remain Free’
The cladding was manufactured by Arconic, a French company, while the insulation behind it came from Celotex and Kingspan.
Kingspan, which provided some of the insulation for the project, found its Kooltherm K15 product erupted into a “raging inferno” when tested in 2007. When a facade engineering firm, Wintech, questioned if Kingspan’s insulation was suitable for high-rise buildings, Philip Heath, a technical manager, wrote in an email to colleagues: “Wintech can go f— themselves and if they are not careful we will sue the a— [off] them.” In a harrowing text exchange, Arron Chalmers, technical project leader at Kingspan, joked with a colleague about K15 being marketed as safe when it failed fire tests. “All we do is lie in here,” one message read.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/11/grenfell-five-years-know-guilty-remain-free/
Families Who’ve spent £820,000 after Grenfell Tragedy Fear They Won’t Get a Penny Back
https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/families-whove-spent-820000-after-27195659
Grenfell’s Legacy Must be an End to Unsafe Homes
Greedy materials companies — Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex Exploited Lax Regulations
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/RB7fHnOduY7k2vd#pdfviewer
I Fear We Could Face Another Grenfell Tower Disaster – THE GUARDIAN
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/12/sadiq-khan-london-mayor-i-fear-we-could-face-another-grenfell
Firms That Refuse to Fund Cladding Repairs Could Face Trading Ban
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/17/firms-who-refuse-to-fund-cladding-repairs-could-face-trading-ban
New Book on Combustible Cladding Just Published
Constructing a Consumer-Focused Industry: Cracks, Cladding and Crisis (routledge.com)
LEGAL NEWS
First Substantive Claim Against a Building Contractor Regarding Defective Cladding to Reach the High Court
https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-th/knowledge/publications/439ead39/construction-bulletin-martlet-homes-limited-v-mulalley-and-co-limited
Fire Safety – Extension of Combustible Cladding Ban
https://cloud.excelplas.com/s/AsHDS9H29dFAVr3#pdfviewer
OTHER NEWS
Five Things to Know Before Recladding (by Fairview)
https://fv.com.au/general-knowledge/5-things-to-know-before-recladding/
New Fire Safety Rules Extend Ban on Combustible Cladding
https://www.roofingtoday.co.uk/new-fire-safety-rules-extend-ban-on-combustible-cladding/
JOBS
Cladding Safety Victoria Seeking Legal Counsel
Applications close on Tuesday 21 June 2022
https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/legal-counsel-at-cladding-safety-victoria-3104859916
Cladding Safety Victoria Seeking Senior Legal Counsel
Applications close on Tuesday 21 June 2022
https://au.linkedin.com/jobs/view/senior-legal-counsel-at-cladding-safety-victoria-3105910758
https://www.seek.com.au/job/57300007?type=standout
Cladding Safety Victoria Seeking Cladding Program Coordinator (Salary +$125K/a)
https://jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/VG-CSV-C0078
CLADDING CLASS ACTIONS
How to Participate in the Alucobond® Combustible Cladding Class Action
https://www.williamroberts.com.au/ArticleDocuments/333/NSD215.2019-20Main-20Notice-20and-20Opt-20Out-20Form.pdf.aspx
How to Participate in the Vitrabond® Combustible Cladding Class Action
https://www.williamroberts.com.au/ArticleDocuments/333/NSD940.2019 – Notice.pdf.aspx
RAPID CLADDING TESTING SERVICE
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/
MORE COMBUSTIBLE CLADDING NEWS
Do You Have Any Cladding Industry News? – Get in Touch
https://www.excelplas.com/contact-us/
Want More Cladding News?
https://www.claddingnews.com/
Roscon is a specialist provider of property reporting and facilities management services to business in the Owners Corporation and Insurance industries
As expert consultants, Roscon can devise a solution to address any non-compliant claddings. These solutions may be far more cost effective than replacing the entire building facade.
https://www.roscon.com.au/cladding_facade_audits
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.