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 ...
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 ...
Checks are being carried out on hundreds of buildings across the country, as investigations into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire continue. So far the Government has received samples from 60 high-rise ...
The freeholder Wallace Estate says cladding removal work will be finished in April Building work to remove flammable cladding at a fire-hit block flats has started. Nearly 300 people were evacuated ...
Since the Grenfell Tower fire seven years ago, cladding has become the building industry's worst nightmare. A rush to provide low-cost, lightweight and energy-efficient wrapping for modern buildings ...
A fire at a student accommodation block in Bolton has brought into sharp focus a series of major fire safety concerns that are still unresolved more than two years after the Grenfell disaster. The ...
Desperate families have spoken of living in fear that they will be the next victims of a Grenfell Tower-like fire as they are trapped in homes with dangerous cladding. More than 100,000 homes still ...
The recent Valencia fire has echoes of what happened at Grenfell, with photos from the construction stage showing ACM cladding was present on the tower’s walls. Peter Apps breaks down what we know so ...
Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II led to deaths of 72 people in a high-rise apartment building in west London more than seven years ago. An inquiry, whose final report was released ...