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 ...

Replacing unsafe cladding is "urgent" and making existing homes secure must come before building new ones, a safety advisor has urged. Dame Judith Hackitt, chairman of the Independent Review of ...

North America Cladding Systems Market was valued at US$ 66.1 billion in 2023 and is projected to attain a market size of US$ 123.6 billion by 2032 at a CAGR of 7.21% during the forecast period ...

A popular cladding brand failed a safety test this week - despite being seen as so fire-safe that it is permitted on tall buildings without any extra tests, Newsnight has learned. Cladding removed for ...

Cladding is an especially underrated, but incredibly important, element of any house design project. It will be instrumental in how your house is perceived and how it ages in time. But how much does ...

Mike Paternoster said his property was "a lot colder" last winter due to the lack of cladding Work is expected to start soon on 14 residential blocks in a Surrey town that were covered in combustible ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Work to make England’s multistorey residential buildings safe from dangerous cladding could cost up to £22.4bn, ...

Flat owners will not have to pay to remove dangerous cladding from lower-height buildings under new government plans, BBC Newsnight understands. It means leaseholders in buildings of between 11 and 18 ...

The China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) informed the IAEA yesterday that a minor fuel cladding failure had occurred at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. What are fuel cladding failures, and what do ...