What is BSF fund?

What is BSF fund?

The Building Safety Fund (BSF) opened for applications from 31 July 2020. This guidance is for applicants to the BSF for grants to remediate unsafe non-Aluminum Cladding Material (ACM) cladding systems on high-rise residential buildings that:

Who can apply for the Building Safety fund?

In the private sector, registration for the fund is open to building owners, freeholders or the responsible entity for buildings within scope that: have or may have unsafe non-ACM cladding systems as part of the external wall system.

What is covered by the Building Safety fund?

The Building Safety Fund must cover all buildings, regardless of height, and a range of internal and external fire safety defects, not just cladding. Social housing providers must have full and equal access to the fund.

What is a non-ACM building?

The term ‘non-ACM cladding’ has therefore come to refer to any unsafe cladding system that is not Aluminium Composite Material cladding.

Does the government pay for cladding?

Almost two years after Grenfell, on 9 May 2019 James Brokenshire, then-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), said the Government “will fully fund the replacement of unsafe aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding on high-rise private residential properties where …

Who pays for cladding removal?

Who is responsible for paying for the removal of cladding and other fire safety costs? Currently, leaseholders are responsible for paying for these remedial costs, usually by way of service charge via their leases.

What is ACM cladding?

Aluminium composite material (ACM) is a flat panel made from two thin aluminium sheets bonded to a non-aluminium core, between three and seven mm thick. The panels have a painted or metallic finish, for example a copper or zinc effect.

Is ACM cladding illegal?

October 2018. On 1 October 2018, the government confirmed that it would ban the use of combustible materials on the external walls of high-rise residential buildings. The money is intended to cover the costs of removing and replacing ACM cladding from their high-rise social housing buildings.

Is ACM flammable?

The Problem. Thousands of high-rise building façades around the globe are covered by highly flammable panels, known as cladding or Aluminum Composite Material (or ACM) with combustible cores, such as polyethylene (PE) or polyurethane (PUR).

What types of cladding are unsafe?

What are the most dangerous forms of cladding? The cladding in use at Grenfell Tower was aluminium composite material or ACM and is dangerously combustible. High-pressure laminate or HPL has also proved seriously unsafe and cladding panels made from compressed paper or wood will clearly be combustible.

Do tenants have to pay for cladding?

What is unsafe cladding?

What are the most dangerous forms of cladding? High-pressure laminate or HPL has also proved seriously unsafe and cladding panels made from compressed paper or wood will clearly be combustible. The Government also has concerns about MCM cladding – Metal Composite Materials – which use zinc, copper or steel.