Vivalda Group’s founder and chairman, Peter Johnson, has urged contractors and architects to tread carefully in the wake of James Brokenshire’s recent announcement to fund the recladding of 166 privately owned, high rise buildings.
Earlier this month (May, 2019) the housing minister confirmed a £200m grant scheme to replace dangerous Grenfell Tower style cladding. The scheme offers to fully fund the replacement of unsafe aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding on privately owned high-rise residential properties.
However, Vivalda’s Peter Johnson is concerned that despite the publication of the Hackitt Report on safety and the subsequent ban on combustible cladding board, there is still a lack of joined up thinking regarding the specification and testing of new cladding systems.
Peter Johnson said: “While the new generation of non-flammable cladding products perform very well when fire tested (achieving A2 and above), we all know there is more to cladding than just the external face – facades comprise many layers including acoustic boards, thermal insulation, vital air voids and myriad fixing systems. Cladding is a much more complex topic than first meets the eye and thus deserves a truly holistic approach.”
“Specifiers working on high rise housing projects have been faced with an unpalatable challenge in the wake of Grenfell.
from Specifier Review http://bit.ly/2JJHBXJ
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