The Government was on Friday urged to do more in tackling dangerous cladding seven years on from the Grenfell Tower fire. Tom Copley, the capital’s deputy mayor for housing, warned that leaseholders ...

The type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower is likely to have to be removed from hundreds of buildings in order to make people safe, a housing expert has said. Hotels, private sector blocks, hospitals ...

Building warranty provider the National House Building Council (NHBC) has agreed to contribute to the cost of removing dangerous Grenfell-style cladding from more private tower blocks, Inside Housing ...

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 ...

As the cladding crisis has snowballed, a huge range of buildings have been affected. Of the 469 high-rises found with ACM cladding, 156 are council blocks, some which had been reclad during ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...