The incorporation of combustible cladding in Victorian buildings has been a scourge on building owners and the Victorian construction industry since coming to the attention of building owners after the Grenfell (UK) and Lacrosse (VIC) buildings fires and the resulting litigation.

Cladding Safety Victoria’s (CSV) analysis, Compliance in Building Design, considers the causes of the incorporation of combustible cladding into Victorian buildings.

It is critical of design professionals and suggests legal changes to the sector intended to impose a greater burden on them along with new burdens on others connected to a building project.

Introduction

Cladding Safety Victoria (CSV) was established under the Cladding Safety Victoria Act (2020) to facilitate funding of the rectification of buildings with combustible cladding.

The organisation has been actively engaged in managing and funding the removal of combustible cladding in hundreds of buildings in Victoria. Combustible cladding includes aluminium composite panels (ACPs) expanded polystyrene and styrene expanded foam (EPSs).

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