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Cladding Rectification & Compliance

Combustible cladding replacement and facade compliance works in the post-Cladding-Safety-Victoria landscape — engineered, permitted, and documented for insurers.

The cost of ignoring it

Non-compliant cladding is a current insurance and liability exposure rather than a future works item. Premiums, sale values and lending against affected buildings all price the risk until rectification is evidenced, and with Cladding Safety Victoria abolished on 1 July 2026, the state-funded pathway has closed.

Drained and ventilated cavity behind a rainscreen Horizontal section through a wall build-up showing the sheathing, the drained and ventilated cavity, the support battens and the rainscreen panel, with the cavity barrier and the drainage path to the weep at the base. Rainscreen panel replacement material selected to the fire provisions Cavity barrier closes the cavity at the required junctions Drained and ventilated cavity the panel is not the waterline — the sheathing behind it is Drainage to the weep water that gets in has to be able to get out Sheathing and water-resistive barrier Internal lining and framing WALL BUILD-UP Replacing the panel alone repeats the failure where the cavity, the barriers and the drainage path were the defect. Cladding Safety Victoria's own analysis found nearly half of the buildings it funded had defects unrelated to the cladding. DET 06 / WALL SECTION
Drained and ventilated cavity behind a rainscreen

Compliance context

Combustible cladding — ACP with polyethylene cores, and some EPS systems — is typically accompanied by non-compliant fixings, missing cavity barriers and inadequate fire-stopping. Rectification is a design-and-approvals exercise as much as a construction one, involving fire engineering, building surveyor approval, and replacement systems that resolve the compliance problem without introducing new waterproofing defects.

Rectification methodology

  • Scope from the approved design — the fire engineering report and the building surveyor requirements drive the extent; we price what is approved, itemised per elevation
  • Investigate before pricing — cladding take-downs verify substrate, sarking and fixing conditions, as conditions behind the panel line frequently differ from those assumed
  • Replace as a system — panels, fixings, cavity barriers, sarking and interface fire-stopping are installed as a tested, documented assembly rather than as a panel substitution
  • Maintain weather-tightness during staged removal on occupied buildings
  • Evidence everything — the handover pack, comprising as-installed system certificates, fixing schedules and inspection records, is what satisfies the surveyor, the insurer and the due diligence of a future purchaser

Typical building types

Combustible cladding is concentrated in apartment buildings and mixed-use podiums with ACP feature cladding, commercial buildings with PE-core panels, and EPS-clad walkways and shafts, predominantly in buildings approved between the late 1990s and 2018.

FAQ

Cladding rectification — common questions

01 Cladding Safety Victoria has been abolished. What is the position for buildings that did not enter the program?

CSV was formally abolished on 1 July 2026 under the Cladding Safety Victoria Repeal Act 2026, with its functions, staff and liabilities transferred to the state building regulator. The underlying obligations were not extinguished with the agency. Buildings with combustible cladding remain subject to the ordinary enforcement regime under Part 8 of the Building Act 1993 — building notices and building orders issued by the municipal or relevant building surveyor, and emergency orders where the risk warrants it — as well as to insurance conditions and duty-of-care exposure. Privately funded rectification is now the available pathway, which increases rather than reduces the importance of transparent scoping and staging.

02 Should defects be expected behind the cladding?

Frequently. Cladding Safety Victoria analysed 359 buildings it funded for cladding rectification and found nearly half had defects unrelated to the cladding — structural, fixing and sealing, or water ingress — and of those, nearly 80% had water or moisture related structural damage. Separately, one in four buildings in the program had leaking balconies, balustrades or terraces causing structural damage. Under the program, owners were required to fund those repairs before cladding rectification proceeded. Investigation scopes should therefore extend behind the panels rather than being limited to the panels themselves.

03 Does all ACP cladding have to be removed?

No. Risk depends on core type, extent, configuration relative to exits and openings, and the fire measures of the building. A fire-engineered assessment can support partial rectification, or retention with mitigations. We build to what the fire engineer and the building surveyor approve, and where a staged or partial rectification is supported by the assessment, that is what is priced.

04 How disruptive is recladding an occupied building?

Managed properly, buildings remain occupied. Works are staged elevation by elevation, with weather-tightness maintained at the close of each day, protected access paths, and communication protocols for residents. The program set out in our scope shows the staging explicitly.

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A written condition report with an itemised scope, prepared to a standard your committee, consulting engineer or board can act on.

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