Firefighters at the scene of the Lacrosse building fire last November. Photo: Wayne Taylor Firefighters at the scene of the Lacrosse building fire last November. Photo: Wayne Taylor Firefighters at ...

Replacing unsafe cladding is "urgent" and making existing homes secure must come before building new ones, a safety advisor has urged. Dame Judith Hackitt, chairman of the Independent Review of ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state Victoria pledged on Tuesday to spend A$600 million ($422 million) replacing flammable building cladding in the wake of London's fatal 2017 ...

The cost of the grenfell tower disaster has soared to nearly 4,000 times the amount builders saved by replacing fire-retardant cladding with a cheaper combustible alternative. The majority of the ...

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