A new £100m civil service office had to be evacuated after a large piece of cladding fell from the top of the building. Staff ...

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 ...

Persimmon Homes has become the first housebuilder to sign the Scottish Government’s developer remediation contract, pledging ...

Ten years ago, a late-night cigarette started a fire that spread rapidly up 13 storeys on the Lacrosse apartment building in Melbourne. The November 24 fire caused more than A$5.7 million in damages, ...

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 ...

Metal cladding is on a growth trajectory globally. This is reflected in rising demand for rainscreen cladding, which market research firm VMR values currently at over $10 billion worldwide, and ...

There is a “widening” gap between identification and action in cladding remediation. Using government data, Property Inspect ...

The Labour Party is pressuring the government to come to the aid of homeowners living in apartments wrapped in dangerous flammable material that was the cause of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. By ...

Building designers now have a plethora of cladding materials and systems to choose from, but conventional small scale fire tests may not always be appropriate. Sarah Colwell sets out the latest ...

Some unsafe buildings may never be identified, National Audit Office says Three in five buildings with dangerous cladding have yet to be identified, according to a report by the National Audit Office.

Ministers still do not know how many buildings are wrapped in the same deadly cladding as Grenfell Tower, despite it being seven years since the disaster. The damning final report into the blaze that ...