It has been four years since the tragic events of Grenfell, and it seems like we have any scratched the surface of the combustible cladding issue in Australia today. The tragic sequence of events demonstrated the need for a coherent and international approach to fire safety.
In NSW alone, an audit of more than 4,127 buildings found cladding on hundreds of buildings posed a safety risk, including a “high risk” in 372 cases[i]. The urgency to resolve this risk has led the local government to work towards reforming NSW’s troubled construction sector.
Recent times have seen several developments in NSW – from the conception of NSW Cladding Taskforce to Project Remediate created in effort to boost the building rectification programs. Whilst the progress has been deemed “too slow”, NSW has set the end of 2023 as their target to remove high-risk flammable cladding.
Corpolinx, therefore, is hosting the 4th Annual Fire Safety and Cladding Summit, (8-9 February 2022 in Sydney, NSW) to bring together all the relevant stakeholders from the building construction sector for a truly exceptional learning and networking experience.
