Grenfell Tower-style building cladding catastrophically failed a government test. The material should have resisted flames for 40 minutes. It lasted less than 9. At its hottest recorded point, the ...

Metal cladding is on a growth trajectory globally. This is reflected in rising demand for rainscreen cladding, which market research firm VMR values currently at over $10 billion worldwide, and ...

Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - The British government will spend 200 million pounds ($260 million) to replace combustible cladding on the outside of high-rise buildings after some private developers ...

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 Labour Party is pressuring the government to come to the aid of homeowners living in apartments wrapped in dangerous flammable material that was the cause of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. By ...

Landlords urged to send cladding for testing amid fears other buildings are vulnerable to a Grenfell-style blaze. Department for Communities and Local Government admits "much public concern" about the ...

A widely used type of building cladding has proven in tests to be highly flammable. Nearly three years after the inferno at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, when aluminium composite material (ACM) ...

It was the report the Labour government did not wish to read, but one that did not come as a shock to the housebuilding sector. At the end of last week, an investigation by parliament’s Public ...

It sounds good. Yet, just as this is happening, building teams are facing unprecedented price pressures and supply chain issues that necessitate rapid, creative solutions. Where value engineering has ...