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BREAKING NEWS
New White Paper: Ventilated vs Solid Top Hats – Insights for Engineers & Facade Professionals [PDF]
LEGAL NEWS
Buildcorp Group Points the Finger as Star Entertainment Group seeks $4.4 Mill for Combustible-Cladding Repairs
Buildcorp is responding by “pointing the finger”at subcontractors: i.e., they’re seeking to shift liability or blame to downstream parties rather than accepting full responsibility themselves.
The issue centres on cladding installed that’s now deemed combustible / non-compliant (or higher risk) and hence requiring remediation—which has cost Star the A$4.4 m figure.
Federal Court Allows Late Opt-out in Cladding Class Action (CCA)
The class action concerned alleged defects in cladding products supplied by 3A Composites GmbH and supplied by Halifax Vogel Group, used in various residential strata developments. Hamilton Locke’s client –- a developer and likely a group member as a result – sought to opt out of the proceedings to pursue a separate claim in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, citing contractual and factual circumstances, including the risk of different findings of facts and law in circumstances where the developer faced a claim relating for that cladding in the Supreme Court.
ACP Decision – The Owners—Strata Plan 93105 V Richard Crookes Constructions Pty Ltd [2025] NSWSC 935
The Plaintiff, an owners corporation, brought a claim against the Defendant builder and developer of the owners corporation’s strata scheme, for the installation of combustible Aluminium Composite Cladding on the common property.
The decision provides useful guidance on the requirements of a gross sum costs order and a reminder to parties that they must attend a mediation in good faith or risk costs consequences.
The Case of Falling Planter Boxes Clad in Aluminium Composite Panels (ACP) with 1,672 Planter Boxes Cantilevered off the Building Façade
Cost of rectification may be $37M in case of The Owners Strata Plan No 87881 v Frasers Broadway Pty Ltd [2025] NSWSC 1073 (10 October 2025)
INDUSTRY NEWS
Sydney Skyscraper One Central Park Chippendale Falling Planter Boxes Could be Flammable
Dangerous Flammable Cladding Still Not Removed from Dozens of NSW High-Rise Apartment Buildings
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