Residents' representatives fear that any flammable materials left in place can lead to a lower fire safety rating - even ...

Grenfell Tower-style building cladding catastrophically failed a government test. The material should have resisted flames for 40 minutes. It lasted less than 9. At its hottest recorded point, the ...

About 300 people were evacuated from the building after the fire in August Flammable cladding and strong winds helped a blaze spread across an apartment building after a balcony's light fitting caught ...

Residents of a block of flats with Grenfell-style flammable cladding were told to “stay put” in their homes as fire ravaged the building and some alarms failed to go off, it has been claimed. Around ...

Another cladding fire has struck London, this time in East London’s Dagenham. Early Monday morning, a 7-story residential tower at 22-24 Freshwater Road was engulfed in flames. Construction was ...

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 ...

LONDON — Around 600 high-rises are believed to be covered in similar cladding to the material suspected of worsening the deadly London apartment block fire, the British government said Thursday.

Concerns had been raised about the fire risk of cladding as far back as 2000 in a parliamentary report, it has emerged. The Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Committee launched an inquiry ...

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 ...

In the early hours of Monday morning, a fire destroyed the Spectrum Building, a seven-storey block in east London containing several floors of residential flats. It was only due to the action of ...

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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 ...