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The combustible cladding that isn’t dangerous Save Share Full cladding removal is not necessary in all buildings, one of the country’s leading fire engineers says after a fire-spread test he conducted showed a Melbourne high-rise could stay safely inhabitable with about $40,000 worth of work instead of a $4 million replacement of all combustible panels. The test Jonathan Barnett conducted on Monday showed fire was unlikely to jump between facade panels on a 24-storey Melbourne apartment tower, because a 1-metre-wide concrete layer separating the panels was sufficient to prevent the ...

City of Port Phillip The City of Port Phillip’s Municipal Building Surveyor (MBS) today issued an Emergency Order and Building Notice requiring residents in a St Kilda apartment building with combustible cladding concerns and other fire safety matters to leave the premises within two weeks. The building cannot be lived in after the next fortnight until fire safety concerns have been addressed. The Emergency Order follows a recommendation by the independent Advisory Reference Panel to Council’s MBS. The building was identified by the VBA as part of an audit of a number of buildings across...