Building designers now have a plethora of cladding materials and systems to choose from, but conventional small scale fire tests may not always be appropriate. Sarah Colwell sets out the latest ...

The Fire Protection Association (FPA) has won the right to carry out BS8414 tests backed by UKAS accreditation. BS8414, which comprises two parts, concerns the fire performance of external cladding ...

A series of cladding systems failed fire tests carried out for the government in 2004, but the results were never revealed before the materials were installed on thousands of buildings, a new document ...

Technology adoption has accelerated over the past couple of years, with every industry starting to digitise in one way or another. The construction sector, however, has proven to be more resistant ...

One of the city's most lavish and prominent apartment blocks is to have "combustible cladding" removed and replaced. An application has been put in to Plymouth City Council's planning department for ...