Ten years ago, a late-night cigarette started a fire that spread rapidly up 13 storeys on the Lacrosse apartment building in Melbourne. The November 24 fire caused more than A$5.7 million in damages, ...

A local authority knew that cladding on an area of a building that caught fire last week was similar to that which contributed to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Nearly 300 people were evacuated from ...

Up to 1,450 residential buildings may need remediation work, including about 250 high-rises Up to £3bn of public money may have to be spent assessing and removing potentially flammable cladding from ...

Repair work is now taking place at Blackpool’s £100million DWP office after a large piece of metal cladding fell from the ...

The Court of Appeal has clarified the criteria by which the secretary of state should make decisions on liability for cladding remediation, and when developers might reasonably challenge them Due to ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. A Four Corners investigation has revealed that lax and ambiguous building standards allowed some ...

Cladding filled with combustible material was allegedly marketed as safe throughout Australia, despite being linked to major blazes worldwide including London's catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire.