Builders responsible for installing dangerous cladding will be pursued by the Andrews government through the courts, under new laws introduced on Tuesday.

Planning Minister Richard Wynne said the government would pass laws giving its authorities the power to pursue builders on behalf of owners' corporations, in situations where the state was paying to rectify the dangerous cladding on an apartment block.

Out of more than 500 buildings identified by the government's Victorian Building Authority as being at high risk of a cladding fire, 15 have so far been selected for publicly funded repair.

While the state government refuses to publish the names of the first 15 buildings, The Age has identified eight set to be repaired with public money, including the Neo 200 apartment tower on Spencer Street in the CBD, the Anstey Square apartments in Brunswick, the Evoque apartments in Hawthorn's Glenferrie Road and Port Melbourne's Bank Apartments in City Road.