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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

LONDON — The government has offered free cladding testing to landlords in a desperate effort to identify potentially dangerous buildings following the Grenfell Tower disaster. The government has ...

Social landlords are waiting for results from government tests before taking action to remove potentially dangerous cladding from 24 blocks, they have told Inside Housing. Almost two years after the ...

Another privately-owned housing block in Cardiff has been revealed to have cladding that has failed a fire safety test following the Grenfell fire. Cardiff council said it was concerned about the ...

Tony Baker, a fire resistance test laboratory manager at the Building Research Establishment (BRE), suggested there had been a “concerted effort” by insulation maker Celotex to conceal a ...

Formally a 7-story shelter for New York residents, 225 East 45th Street has adopted a new identity. Now known as New Providence, the building supports 131 units of affordable/supportive housing, 170 ...

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 ...

Thousands of people are at risk of a Grenfell-style fire because of a “flawed” test that stated a type of cladding covering hundreds of tower blocks is safe, the government has been told. Fire safety ...

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