Combustible Cladding
Combustible cladding — assessed, reported, rectified.
Non-compliant cladding is the most consequential problem a building's facade can carry. Summit assesses it, documents it defensibly, and rectifies it.
The issue
What makes cladding combustible.
Some aluminium composite panels (ACP) and expanded polystyrene (EPS) systems have a core that burns and carries fire rapidly up a building's facade. After the Lacrosse fire in Melbourne's Docklands in 2014 and the Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017, these systems were identified as a serious life-safety risk on many mid- and high-rise buildings.
The Victorian picture
The funded program is closing. The obligation isn't.
Victoria's government-funded rectification program, run by Cladding Safety Victoria, focused on higher-risk residential buildings and is winding up — its functions folding into the new Building and Plumbing Commission. But the funded program never covered every building, and it doesn't remove the underlying duty. Identifying and rectifying non-compliant cladding remains the responsibility of building owners and owners corporations — now, in most cases, privately funded and on their own timeline.
Who is responsible
The duty sits with the building's owners.
- Owners corporations — external walls are an owners corporation responsibility under the Owners Corporations Act.
- Building owners and investors — for buildings not under an owners corporation.
- Anyone buying, insuring or refinancing a building — where cladding affects value and risk.
How Summit helps
Assessment to rectification, one team.
Assessment
An accredited facade inspection identifies cladding type, extent and risk.
Defect report
A defensible, photo-referenced report you can take to insurers, engineers and the owners corporation.
Rectification
Builder-grade replacement of non-compliant cladding, with the access capability to do it efficiently.
Questions
Combustible cladding, answered.
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