Fire engineer, architect and surveyor wear $5.7m of damages from flammable cladding blaze

Apartment owners at Melbourne’s Lacrosse tower in Docklands win millions in damages after a fire fuelled by flammable cladding caused significant damage to the building in November 2014.

The fire, which was sparked by a late-night cigarette left to burn in a plastic food container, raced up aluminum composite cladding on the building’s exterior, but none of the approximately 400 people evacuated from the complex were hurt

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