cladding

NSW Stops Short of Paying for Cladding Rectification

2020-11-30T12:17:39+11:00

18 NOVEMBER 2020 Owners of buildings with flammable cladding in NSW will still need to pay tens of thousands of dollars per apartment to rectify their complexes after the NSW Government refused to Victoria’s lead in paying for flammable cladding to be rectified. Whilst the preference would be for the government to pay for the cost of remediation, Karen Stiles, Executive Officer for OCN welcomed both the announcement of the low [...]

NSW Stops Short of Paying for Cladding Rectification2020-11-30T12:17:39+11:00

Interest-free loans part of $1b program to fix NSW’s cladding crisis

2020-11-17T12:11:30+11:00

17 NOVEMBER 2020 Apartment owners forced to replace flammable cladding on high-risk buildings across NSW will be able to access interest-free loans as part of a $1 billion government program over the next three years aimed at helping to resolve the crisis. The program, which will be unveiled in the state budget on Tuesday, includes $139 million to establish and offer technical support to owners for the remediation of at-risk buildings. [...]

Interest-free loans part of $1b program to fix NSW’s cladding crisis2020-11-17T12:11:30+11:00

‘In limbo land’: Apartment owners in bind over flammable cladding fix

2020-09-21T21:23:38+10:00

17 SEPTEMBER 2020 A drawn out saga over replacing flammable cladding has soured relations between owners of a southern Sydney apartment building and imposed a large financial burden on them. Yet almost 18 months after their local council ordered cladding to be removed, some owners of the Quattro Apartments at Gymea fear the material they plan to use to replace it won't comply in future because the state government is still [...]

‘In limbo land’: Apartment owners in bind over flammable cladding fix2020-09-21T21:23:38+10:00

60 Minutes – Buyer Beware Part 1

2020-10-07T04:29:24+11:00

9 AUGUST 2020 Here's an incredible, not to mention shameful, statistic about Australia's building industry. 85% of new high-rise apartment towers are defective. The rate of shoddy workmanship has increased dramatically as governments around the country have encouraged more developers to build more high-density housing as a way of containing urban sprawl. As a result, many unsuspecting buyers, trying to put a roof over their heads, are learning a painful lesson: [...]

60 Minutes – Buyer Beware Part 12020-10-07T04:29:24+11:00

Apartment owners win legal victory over combustible cladding

2020-10-07T04:30:30+11:00

6 AUGUST 2020 A group of apartment owners battling to have combustible cladding replaced on their buildings have won a landmark legal victory – giving hope to the thousands more facing similar dangers. In an Australian first, a major building company which installed timber-PVC Biowood cladding on four multi-storey apartment blocks in Ryde has lost its appeal against being forced to rectify the work. Further, if it doesn’t reach an agreement [...]

Apartment owners win legal victory over combustible cladding2020-10-07T04:30:30+11:00

2GB – Calls for government to help pay for flammable cladding removal

2020-10-07T04:33:01+11:00

13 JULY 2020 Michael McLaren, 2GB Overnight Program host, is joined by Karen Stiles, Executive Officer of the Owners Corporation Network, a not-for-profit body representing apartment owners, who claims the federal government’s $25,000 Home Builder grants would have been better spent fixing apartment buildings cloaked in flammable cladding which posed a risk to lives. > Full interview at 2GB.com Michael McLaren

2GB – Calls for government to help pay for flammable cladding removal2020-10-07T04:33:01+11:00

‘They should help’: Sydney cladding crisis leaves big bills for owners

2020-10-07T04:34:22+11:00

13 JULY 2020 The large yellow cladding on the side of the 19-storey Distillery apartment tower in Pyrmont has made it one of the most recognisable residential high rises in the inner Sydney suburb. Yet the flammable nature of the cladding has also made it an expensive problem for its owners, who are finally nearing the end of a three-year saga to remove it that has cost them more than $3 [...]

‘They should help’: Sydney cladding crisis leaves big bills for owners2020-10-07T04:34:22+11:00

High-Rise Tower Catches Fire in United Arab Emirates

2020-09-21T21:55:42+10:00

5 May 2020 A high-rise tower caught fire late Tuesday in the United Arab Emirates in a city-state neighboring Dubai, a blaze that saw flames rapidly shoot up the sides of the building like other recent incidents that involved flammable cladding. The blaze at the 48-story Abbco Tower in Sharjah saw flaming debris shower neighboring dusty parking lots and left metal siding littering surrounding streets. The UAE, including skyscraper-studded Dubai, has [...]

High-Rise Tower Catches Fire in United Arab Emirates2020-09-21T21:55:42+10:00

Greens say ACT government should audit privately-owned buildings for flammable cladding

2020-10-07T16:23:31+11:00

21 SEPTEMBER 2019 The ACT Greens say the government should consider auditing Canberra's apartment buildings for potentially dangerous flammable cladding. The government launched an audit of territory-owned buildings in July 2017, weeks after the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London put the global spotlight on the use of aluminum and polyethylene cladding. But the ACT government isn't inspecting privately-owned buildings, relying instead on insurance companies to pass on information about the [...]

Greens say ACT government should audit privately-owned buildings for flammable cladding2020-10-07T16:23:31+11:00

Combustible cladding will ‘test the owners corporation model’

2020-10-07T16:24:31+11:00

3 SEPTEMBER 2019 Fixing combustible cladding will require technical skills and understanding beyond some owners corporations – especially in smaller buildings – and could prompt a rethink about the best way to manage housing stock, Victoria's cladding tsar Dan O'Brien says. 40 per cent of the 406 structures deemed "high risk" to date were three storeys or below, Mr O'Brien told a property industry audience last week. The lack of sophistication of [...]

Combustible cladding will ‘test the owners corporation model’2020-10-07T16:24:31+11:00
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