{"id":77723,"date":"2025-02-09T11:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/insurance\/protect-against-non-compliant-cladding\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T11:12:48","slug":"protect-against-non-compliant-cladding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=77723","title":{"rendered":"Protect against non-compliant cladding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The UK\u2019s Grenfell Tower disaster has had widespread implications for professionals in Australia\u2019s construction industry. Here\u2019s how to help protect yourself if you\u2019re a contractor who\u2019s worked on any Australian building project.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UK<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grenfell_Tower\">\u00a0Grenfell Tower disaster<\/a>\u00a0claimed the lives of 72 people on 14 June 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy unfolded on television and computer screens around the globe, serving as a sharp and tragic wake-up call to governments and regulators around the world that cheap, non-compliant cladding materials could create devastating fire hazards for high rise buildings.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia, the threat combustible cladding poses remains very real.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/victoria\/news\/melbourne-apartment-fire-forces-large-scale-evacuation\/news-story\/898ff97da1d4ae4b643edbfb3de1fc32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As evidenced by a recent fire at an inner city high-rise in Melbourne<\/a>\u00a0that forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents and required more than 60 fire fighters to bring it under control.<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authorities and insurance companies have been quick to put new procedures and policies in place, including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planning.vic.gov.au\/building-policy\/victorian-cladding-taskforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victorian Cladding Taskforce<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.claddingregistration.nsw.gov.au\/cladding-taskforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NSW\u2019s Fire Safety and External Wall Cladding Taskforce<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In NSW,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planning.nsw.gov.au\/cladding\">new laws<\/a>\u00a0require owners of existing buildings with combustible cladding that fall within specified categories to register their building with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.claddingregistration.nsw.gov.au\/\">NSW Cladding Registration portal<\/a>\u00a0by 22 February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>As non-compliant buildings are identified around the nation, owners may be ordered to remove the cladding from their buildings.<\/p>\n<p>This has been seen already at the Lacrosse tower building in Docklands, Melbourne, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.melbourne.vic.gov.au\/sitecollectiondocuments\/mbs-report-lacrosse-fire.pdf\">caught fire in 2014<\/a>. In turn, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/victoria\/docklands-owners-sue-for-24m-over-fire-as-date-to-fix-cladding-looms-20180909-p502pc.html\">apartment owners are now suing<\/a>\u00a0the builder and other consultants to cover the costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve initiated legal action against the builder and a lot of the consultants who worked on the project,\u201d\u00a0 explains Steadfast\u2019s Broker Technical Manager, Michael White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause one thing about all these kinds of situations is that anybody who had anything to do with the project, no matter how remote, can get sued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"call-out-block\"><em>To view the full article, please visit Steadfast Well Covered\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steadfast.com.au\/well-covered\/insurance-for-established-business\/how-to-protect-your-business-against-non-compliant-cladding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/u>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"\n\t\t\txmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\"\n\t\t\txmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n\t\t<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"https:\/\/www.insurancespecialists.com.au\/protect-your-business-against-non-compliant-cladding\/\"\n    dc:identifier=\"https:\/\/www.insurancespecialists.com.au\/protect-your-business-against-non-compliant-cladding\/\"\n    dc:title=\"How to protect your business against non-compliant cladding\"\n    trackback:ping=\"https:\/\/www.insurancespecialists.com.au\/protect-your-business-against-non-compliant-cladding\/trackback\/\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>-->\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s Grenfell Tower disaster has had widespread implications for professionals in Australia\u2019s construction industry. 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