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 Grenfell Tower tragedy of 14 June 2017 turned cladding into a nightmare for thousands of families across the UK. Millions of people found that they were living in buildings covered in substances ...

The government has been condemned for its slow response to the cladding scandal after a fire at a London block covered in the same flammable material as Grenfell Tower left than 40 people in need of ...

Jonathan Sakula, an expert with 30 years’ experience in the facades industry, said the combustibility of building systems similar to that used at the west London tower block were well known. According ...

Brian Martin tells Grenfell Inquiry he ‘struggles to understand’ why he did not take action A senior civil servant has told the Grenfell inquiry that he “struggles to understand” why he did not take ...

The final report of the Grenfell Inquiry has highlighted the fact that millions of homes and offices around the world could be encased in combustible cladding and insulation panels. Lucy Barnard looks ...

The UK government failed to warn the building sector about the potential dangers around aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding despite a test in 2001 which showed a “catastrophic escalation” of ...

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 ...