Cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower is lethal and must be fixed “as soon as possible”, government fire tests have found. Long-awaited tests carried out on High Pressure Laminate (HPL) ...

The repercussions from the fire tragedy at Grenfell Tower, which killed 72 people in a London high-rise in June 2017, continue to spread through the world of building fire safety. On July 18, the U.K.

The government has been accused of a “futile desperation to contain the cladding scandal” as it prepares to combine high-pressure laminate (HPL) material with non-combustible insulation in its ...

A widely used type of building cladding has proven in tests to be highly flammable. Nearly three years after the inferno at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, when aluminium composite material (ACM) ...

Since the Grenfell Tower fire seven years ago, cladding has become the building industry's worst nightmare. A rush to provide low-cost, lightweight and energy-efficient wrapping for modern buildings ...

The Government has been accused of "a poor attempt at a cover-up" in an announcement about cladding tests following the Grentell Tower fire. Two years on from the disaster which claimed 72 lives, ...

At around 8:30 p.m. last Friday, a fire broke out in a student accommodation block in Bolton, a town in the Greater Manchester region of northwest England. The accommodation block, known as the Cube, ...

Residents of six apartment blocks fear they are living in a “fire trap” after learning their flats have the same cladding as a student block in Bolton that was turned into a towering inferno last ...

The government has been accused of a “futile desperation to contain the cladding scandal” as it prepares to combine high-pressure laminate (HPL) material with non-combustible insulation in its ...