Look at the walls of most modern buildings. Sleek. Smooth. Sometimes glossy, sometimes matte. That’s not regular paint or plaster. Most of the time, it’s aluminium cladding panels. These panels are ...

Over the last 12 years or so, I’ve devoted the majority of my professional work to designing stone cladding and glass/aluminum cladding systems, and I’ve seen plenty of errors that could have been ...

Stone wall cladding will give your home a an elegant and quaint look which does not cost much to maintain. File photo Wall cladding can change the overall look of a house without too much hassle ...

Façades don't always have to be opaque. Whereas in the past the only options were heavy and raw–such as stone and brick–in recent years façades have adopted an increasingly lighter appearance, with ...

It took just 90 minutes for fire to race up 20 storeys of the Grenfell Tower in June 2017, killing 72 people. Last month, a cigarette sparked a blaze that quickly jumped five floors of Melbourne's ...

Alcoa Architectural Products of France has launched a new aluminium cladding panel that cleans both itself and the surrounding air. “These cladding features mean the building is no longer just a ...

When Henry Mutumba, a resident of Kitebi, Rubaga Division constructed his house 15 years ago, he finished his perimeter wall with stone cladding. For the first few years, it looked resplendent but as ...

Documents show contractors were asked to fit aluminium instead of more fire-resistant zinc, saving £300,000 Fire-resistant zinc cladding approved by residents of Grenfell Tower was replaced in the ...

Buildings in Sharjah with a height of more than 23 metres or equivalent of seven floors should not have aluminium cladding, a forum was heard on Tuesday. The Sharjah Municipality organised the forum ...

Cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment was changed to a cheaper version, documents obtained by the BBC suggest. Documents show the zinc cladding originally proposed was replaced ...