Further to our ongoing e-alerts concerning the
three-stage compliance obligations for combustible cladding in
Queensland, in a Ministerial Construction Council meeting earlier
this month it was announced that combustible cladding is to be
banned on all new Queensland buildings going forward.
The wording of the proposed regulations has yet to be revealed,
however the ban will extend to "all aluminium composite panels
with a PE core of greater than 30 per cent, and it would restrict
usage across all buildings in Queensland."1
While this announcement provides certainty as to the management
of combustible cladding in future building developments, concern
still lingers as to the obligation to rectify combustible cladding
deficiencies in existing buildings, and who is to bear the costs of
any such rectification works.
