A £1 million fund to remove unsafe cladding from private residential buildings in Northern Ireland has opened for applications four years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed its dangers. Aluminium ...

The judge leading the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has ruled that the cladding installed on the tower did not comply with building regulations, finding that the polyethylene-cored panels were the “primary ...

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 ...

Three years after the Grenfell Tower fire, hundreds of buildings still have unsafe cladding The government still has a "long way to go" to strip all high-rise buildings of dangerous cladding similar ...

The video of the test shows flames reaching the top of the test wall in under eight minutes The owners of tall buildings face pressure to continue removing dangerous cladding, despite coronavirus, ...

On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force. Paul Tonkin answers some key questions. The ban does not ...

The Grenfell fire in June 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people Nearly five years after the Grenfell Tower fire, 40% of buildings in England with the same type of cladding have not been made safe, new ...

More than 100 firefighters were called today to a block of flats in east London designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), which were wrapped in combustible cladding similar to that used on ...

Developers who covered tower blocks in unsafe cladding have paid back less than 3% of the cash lent out by the government to make buildings safe, sparking accusations they are “getting away with it”.

The government has released the results of its long-awaited tests on a range of cladding products, concluding that none pose the same threat as the cladding used on Grenfell Tower. The government has ...