Specifiers working on Australian commercial towers and multi-residential projects are paying closer attention than ever to what sits inside the cavity behind…
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Specifying Fire-Stop Cavity Barriers in Ventilated Rainscreen Facades
How to Sequence Cladding Installation Around Scaffold Dismantling
Scaffold dismantling is often treated as the final activity before a facade package is complete. In practice, it is a controlled transition between safe access…
Ablative fire barriers for cladding cavity penetrations
Behind the rainscreen of a ventilated facade sits a quiet fire engineering problem. Designers specify non-combustible cavity barriers at every floor slab and…
Troubleshooting Gasket Compression Issues on Weather-Sealed Cladding Systems
Weather-sealed cladding protects buildings from water, wind, and temperature extremes, but the gaskets that hold these seals in place can fail in ways that are…
How to link cladding deliveries to weekly lifting operations
A cladding works programme is most useful when it shows more than start and finish dates. It should explain how panels, rails, membranes, flashings, glazing…
Choosing the Right Insulation Approach for a Facade Retrofit
For anyone weighing up a thermal upgrade on an existing building, the choice between fixing insulation to the inside face or wrapping it around the outside…
Placing Expansion Gaps in Long Vertical Aluminium Glazing Mullions
Long vertical aluminium mullions behave differently from the shorter sticks used in low-rise storefronts. A 6 to 9 metre run between floor slabs on a Brisbane…
What to Check Before Accepting a Cladding Subcontractor's Quality Plan
When a head contractor or developer receives a quality plan on a facade package, the document often looks thorough on the surface but hides gaps in plain…
Planning mastic joint widths for composite panels in Australia
Composite panels can produce clean, durable building envelopes, but their joints need to be designed around movement rather than appearance alone. Temperature…
Designing a door recess without breaking the rainscreen envelope
When a ventilated facade meets an opening, the rainscreen barrier is suddenly interrupted. A doorway is, by definition, a hole in the weather envelope, and a…