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) ...

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 ...

On the morning of September 16, a Wednesday, a discarded cigarette set fire to a pile of autumn leaves and litter outside the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Glasgow, Scotland. The main atrium filled with ...

This story originally ran in Engineering News-Record on June 28, 2017. Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined ...

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 ...

The funds are aimed at protecting residents of buildings wrapped in flammable materials from bearing the cost of making them safe. But those impacted and some lawmakers say more support is needed. By ...

The government said a process carried out by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) showed that certain cladding systems using aluminium composite material with a category two fire-resistant ...

The use of cladding on high-rise buildings has come under intense scrutiny since the Grenfell Tower fire. Emanuela Barbiroglio investigates how many private residential blocks in London are at risk.

A coronavirus intensive-care unit at risk of burning because parts of its structure were made by the same company whose cladding products exacerbated the 2017 Grenfell Tower blaze was closed this week ...

Digital Edition: LFB yet to rule if ACM cladding played part in Ballymore fire The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is yet to determine whether ACM cladding played a part in a fire at a Ballymore residential ...