On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force. Paul Tonkin answers some key questions. The ban does not ...
Flammable cladding similar to the material which had covered Grenfell Tower is still being widely used across the UK. The combustible cladding used on Grenfell was a significant factor in allowing the ...
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) ...
Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman said: "It is shocking that seven years after the devastating Grenfell Tower fire there are still high-rise buildings clad in ACM" An east London council has taken ...
A £1 million fund to remove unsafe cladding from private residential buildings in Northern Ireland has opened for applications four years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed its dangers. Aluminium ...
Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe. On ...
In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire last year, a number of local authorities sent samples of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding taken from council-owned buildings to a ...
Esther McVey told to bail out all flat owners caught in post-Grenfell fire safety crisis MPs have demanded that the government finally foot a multi-billion-pound bill to bail out hundreds of thousands ...
Landlords and managers of tower blocks are facing urgent calls to remove cladding, despite coronavirus social distancing measures, as new tests show just how fast flames can spread. In the past ...
The judge leading the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has ruled that the cladding installed on the tower did not comply with building regulations, finding that the polyethylene-cored panels were the “primary ...
The video of the test shows flames reaching the top of the test wall in under eight minutes The owners of tall buildings face pressure to continue removing dangerous cladding, despite coronavirus, ...
Three years after the Grenfell Tower fire, hundreds of buildings still have unsafe cladding The government still has a "long way to go" to strip all high-rise buildings of dangerous cladding similar ...
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