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 ...

THE State Government has moved to ban potentially deadly aluminium composite panel cladding on many buildings, as investigations continue into whether the Launceston General Hospital contains the ...

Tasmanians financially impacted by having to rectify buildings because of dangers associated with certain aluminium cladding have been invited to join in a class action. Have you lost money having to ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Federal Court of Australia said in an advertisement the class action involved Vitrabond PE and ...

U City on Franklin St is a mixed-use building by Uniting Communities and will include specialist disability accommodation and retirement residences. The building, which has been designed to achieve a ...

Look at the walls of most modern buildings. Sleek. Smooth. Sometimes glossy, sometimes matte. That’s not regular paint or plaster. Most of the time, it’s aluminium cladding panels. These panels are ...

Newsnight has obtained confidential reports that help explain how flammable material has become more common on tall buildings. Combustible cladding has been permitted based on reports arguing fires ...