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 ...

Almost a third of buildings in England identified as having Grenfell-style flammable cladding have yet to undergo work to remove it, according to Government data. A total of 458 high-rise residential ...

Safety tests conducted on about 600 high-rise buildings in England have so far found that seven contain flammable external cladding similar to that used on London’s Grenfell Tower, officials said.

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 ...

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) ...

A government panel reviewing building regulations and fire safety in England says a cladding system using aluminum composite material (ACM) with a fire-retardant polyethylene filler and phenolic foam ...

Flammable cladding and strong winds helped a blaze spread across an apartment building after a balcony's light fitting caught fire, investigators have concluded. Nearly 300 residents were evacuated ...

The type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower is likely to have to be removed from hundreds of buildings in order to make people safe, a housing expert has said. Hotels, private sector blocks, hospitals ...

Less than £1.5m of £200m allocated to remove dangerous cladding from high-rise buildings in the private sector has been handed out, a damning report by the UK’s spending watchdog has revealed. An ...