An Australian judge has ruled that the owners of a building badly damaged by fire should receive most of their $AUS 12.7 million claim, with 39% to come from the fire engineer, 35% from the certifier and 25% from the architect. The builder only has to pay 3%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2014 the Lacrosse Building in Melbournce suffered major damage when a fire that started from a cigarette in a plant pot on a balcony set fire to cladding and spread up the outside of the building. Fortunately the building was sprinklered, the sprinklers stopped the fire entering the building and nobody was killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The major payments are because the parties were ruled to have breached contractual obligations. Abiding by common practice is no defence if that practice is inadequate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was the Australian government which introduced a performance-based deregulatory approach that allowed architects, fire engineers and certifiers to convince themselves that combustible cladding was acceptable. The British government took a similar approach and the Grenfell Tower disaster killed 72 people on 14 June 2017. It remains to be seen whether a similar ruling will be reached in the UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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