A devastating fire breaking out in London's Grenfell Tower killed at least 80 and injured over 70 people on June 14, 2017. It is believed and still investigated that flammable cladding has caused this tragic fire, which also put in action many organisations and states about the revision of fire safety reforms, one of them was the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) - released an official statement on Design for Fire Safety. 

Currently, the New South Wales state government announced that they will "audit the use and ban the supply of the potentially flammable building cladding, according to a report from The Sydney Morning Herald.

"The government would introduce reform that would identify buildings encased in unsafe cladding, require them to be inspected and force building owners to foot the bill for replacements and ban the sale and supply of unsafe material."

"Better Regulation Minister Matt Kean said the government had undertaken an audit sample of about 180,000 residential and commercial towers constructed in NSW since the 1980s. About 1000 of those buildings "may have [unsafe] cladding", the Minister said.".........Continue Reading

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> via The Sydney Morning Herald