The various insulation and cladding materials used on Grenfell Tower was up to five grades lower than it should have been to comply with the basic standards of building guidance, an expert has said.

Bristol City Council is currently re-cladding 45 blocks of council flats. They are home to thousands of people across the city. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Bristol Post ...

Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

Aluminium composite material cladding with a fire-retardant polyethylene filler and phenolic foam insulation has failed fire tests conducted by BRE. The tests have also identified 22 buildings over 18 ...

Police have confirmed at least 12 people perished after fire engulfed the 24-storey apartment block in Ladbroke Grove in West London but warned the death toll was likely to rise dramatically. Many ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The government department investigating Victoria's flammable cladding crisis is housed in a tower deemed such a high fire risk that it ...

The fire at the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) building in Petaling Jaya this morning spread quickly due to the use of polyfoam or polyethylene as a cladding material, said the Fire and Rescue ...

Some buildings still have the same dangerous cladding in place that Grenfell Tower did (Picture: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty) It’s been five years since the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. The ...

Cladding on 27 high-rise blocks in 15 local authority areas has now failed fire safety checks, with a mass evacuation of buildings in north London announced. A national safety operation is under way ...

A safety test carried out on a variation of the aluminium cladding blamed for the spread of the fire at Grenfell Tower has shown the design complies with current building regulations. It is the fourth ...