The brightly-coloured external cladding on Brisbane Square was removed from the building as it contains a combustible central core that poses a fire risk. Hundreds of buildings in Queensland are clad by the panels. They are built of the same material that accelerated the fire in Grenfell Tower in 2017, which resulted in 72 deaths.
Shaye Griffiths-Rudd, property manager of the investment firm that owns Brisbane Square, said replacement of the cladding with solid aluminum panels will be complete in 2022, and confirmed that the colour scheme of the building will not change.