The British engineer who rewrote her country's high-rise regulations after the Grenfell Tower tragedy will join a review of Victoria’s building code to avoid a repeat of the state's own flammable cladding crisis.

The announcement that Dame Judith Hackitt will join a six-person panel to review building laws comes as the government says there are now no more buildings considered "extreme" risks by authorities.

Dame Judith Hackitt outside RMIT in February. Credit:Luis Enrique Ascui

Planning Minister Richard Wynne says Victoria’s Building Act, which has been largely unchanged since 1993, needs to be updated into a “modern and effective” code, using lessons learnt in the five years since the Lacrosse Tower fire in Melbourne’s Docklands.

Dame Judith will join Red Tape Commissioner Anna Cronin, consumer policy expert Lauren Solomon, Victorian Master Builders Association president Melanie Fasham, CFMEU official Gerry Ayers and construction law expert Ian Bailey in the review.