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 ...

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 February 22, a fire swept through a 14-story apartment block in the Campanar neighborhood of Valencia, Spain. Ten people died in the blaze. Smartphone footage showed an awning on a seventh-floor ...

The fire at the residential tower block in North Kensington, west London, on the night of June 24, 2017, triggered a public inquiry, chaired by Sir Martin Moore-Bick. It has examined the circumstances ...

Almost a third of buildings in England identified as having Grenfell-style flammable cladding have yet to undergo work to remove it, according to Government data. A total of 458 high-rise residential ...

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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 ...

An east London council has taken legal action against a private building owner to remove Grenfell-style cladding from a high-rise property. Tower Hamlets Council has secured a remediation order, which ...

Six buildings in Leeds still have Grenfell-style cladding, government data has revealed. Data released on Thursday March 7 as part of the Government's Building Safety Programme states that six ...

The Government has been warned it still “has a long way to go” to strip all high-rise buildings of dangerous cladding like that which covered Grenfell Tower. Some 300 buildings are still undergoing ...

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 ...

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 ...