Cladding replacement & recladding, Melbourne.

Thousands of buildings still carry combustible cladding.

Since the 2014 Lacrosse fire in Docklands and the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, aluminium composite panels with polyethylene cores (ACP/PE) and expanded polystyrene render systems have been identified as a fire risk on buildings across Victoria. A state-wide program addressed the highest-risk residential towers; with that work now largely complete, the focus has shifted to privately-funded rectification on commercial buildings and owners-corporation assets.

Once a building surveyor or fire engineer has assessed the façade and set the rectification scope, someone has to do the works. That's us: 360 Access removes the non-compliant cladding and installs compliant non-combustible cladding and flashing — access, removal and install from one contractor, so you're not coordinating three trades on a façade.

Designed and certified by engineers. Installed by us.

Every rectification programme runs on a fixed division of roles. The fire engineer designs the remediation — replacement system, fixings, junctions and fire-stopping detail — and the building surveyor approves that design and certifies the completed works. The installer's job is to build exactly what the documentation specifies, and prove it. That's the role 360 Access plays: we don't select the system, we don't assess compliance and we never sign off our own work — we install to the engineer's specification and hand the surveyor the workmanship records, QA evidence and disposal certificates their sign-off relies on.

It's the same install-to-spec discipline our crews deliver at scale on rope. At the Leave Plus Building in North Melbourne, we carried out a 168-panel façade replacement by rope access — panels stripped, replaced and flashed to the engineer's documented scope — without scaffolding the building, which stayed occupied throughout.

If your building is still at the assessment stage, our guide to combustible cladding in Victoria walks through how panels are identified, assessed and scoped. And because stripping a façade often uncovers what's behind it — failed sealants, water ingress, damaged substrates — the same crews close out façade repairs in the same mobilisation.

Two paths to a non-combustible façade.

Cladding rectification in Victoria splits cleanly along funding lines:

• Cladding Safety Victoria (CSV) programme — government-funded rectification of the highest-risk residential towers identified by the Victorian Cladding Taskforce after the Lacrosse and Grenfell fires. CSV-administered work runs to a defined scope set by their engineers and surveyors. Most of the highest-risk residential stock has been completed; the remaining CSV pipeline is shrinking. Where CSV is involved, they direct the works and approve the contractor; 360 Access delivers to the CSV-set scope.
• Privately-commissioned rectification — by owners corporations, developers, asset managers, commercial building owners and Tier 1–3 builders on commercial assets that fall outside the CSV programme. The fire engineer and building surveyor set the scope; the OC or owner appoints us as installation contractor. Most cladding work today runs this path.

For owners corporations specifically, the typical sequence is: independent fire-engineering assessment → building surveyor scope direction → installation tender → execution → close-out documents. We sit at the execution end of that chain — see our OC service path for detail on how we work with strata committees.