The cost of ignoring it
Non-compliant cladding is a live insurance and liability exposure, not just a future works item. Premiums, sale values and lending against affected buildings all price the risk until rectification is evidenced.
The problem, plainly
Combustible cladding — ACP with polyethylene cores, some EPS systems — plus the non-compliant fixings, missing cavity barriers and poor fire-stopping that typically travel with it. Rectification is a design-and-approvals exercise as much as a construction one: fire engineering, building surveyor approval, and replacement systems that solve the compliance problem without creating new waterproofing ones.
Our approach
- Scope from the approved design — fire engineering report and building surveyor requirements drive extent; we price what’s approved, itemised per elevation
- Investigate before pricing — cladding take-downs to verify substrate, sarking and fixing conditions; the surprises live behind the panels
- Replace as a system — panels, fixings, cavity barriers, sarking and interface fire-stopping as a tested, documented assembly, not panel-swapping
- Maintain weather-tightness during staged removal on occupied buildings
- Evidence everything — the handover pack (as-installed system certificates, fixing schedules, inspection records) is what satisfies the surveyor, the insurer and the next purchaser’s due diligence
Where this shows up
Apartment buildings and mixed-use podiums with ACP feature cladding, commercial buildings with PE-core panels, EPS-clad walkways and shafts — concentrated in buildings approved between the late 1990s and 2018.