Checks are being carried out on hundreds of buildings across the country, as investigations into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire continue. So far the Government has received samples from 60 high-rise ...

Where to begin? The Grenfell Inquiry, launched three months after a fire in Grenfell Tower in West London claimed 72 lives, is now in its third year and still ongoing. Since beginning in September ...

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 ...

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) ...

Five years after 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire, which broke out on June 14, 2017, the UK government has announced plans to ban the type of cladding used to cover the external ...

Thousands of people are feared to be living in death traps after the government estimated 600 buildings have cladding like that used on fire-ravaged Grenfell Tower. Samples from seven tower blocks ...

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 ...

Last week, counselors representing the bereaved and survivors of London’s 2017 Grenfell fire presented a range of internal documents to the inquiry from Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan, illustrating a ...

Theresa May has called for a “major national investigation” into tower block cladding after the number of high rises which failed fire safety tests rose to 95. The Prime Minister urged the expansion ...

Emergency services were called to a 19-storey tower-block over the weekend when a fire broke out at New Providence Wharf development, near Canary Wharf, which reportedly had cladding similar to that ...

The American manufacturer of aluminum composite panels used as cladding in London’s Grenfell Tower has halted sales of the product for use in high-rise buildings. At least 79 people were killed when ...

As the section of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry examining how the products used in the cladding system were tested, marketed and sold comes to a close, Peter Apps summarises what we have learned about ...