Builders LU Simon have been ordered to pay the multimillion-dollar sum to owners at the Lacrosse building in Docklands, but a judge has ordered several contractors to reimburse the company for almost the entire amount.
Apartment owners at the Lacrosse building in Melbourne's Docklands have been awarded more than $5.74m in damages following a fire in 2014 that was fuelled by combustible cladding.
The other respondents in the case include the building surveyor and his employer Gardner Group, the architects Elenberg Fraser, and the fire engineer Thomas Nicholas. The Gardner Group, which employed the building surveyor, was found to have failed to exercise "due care and skill" in issuing the building permit for the construction of the tower, and approving the cladding, which "did not comply with the building code of Australia".The architects were found to have failed to remedy defects in its design, which saw non-compliant cladding used.
Concerns over the use of cladding in Melbourne's high rise buildings have re-emerged this month following a fire that was likely fuelled by cladding at the Neo200 apartment complex on Spencer Street in the CBD.understands many residents of the apartment block are talking to lawyers about what action they can take following the blaze.
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