Courts and Trials

Mushrooms growing inside apartment block built by suspended Melbourne company

Emad Farag has been suspended as a domestic and commercial builder for three years, with Mr Farag given a show cause notice about why he should not be suspended. The VBA said “the decision to suspend was taken in the interests of the public”. “Mr Farag is the builder named on the permit for six …

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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 …

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