Cladding serves both functional and aesthetic purposes, protecting from the elements while enhancing the building’s appearance. When choosing materials, it is important to consider factors such as ...

For more than two decades, science has recognized that building fires have become hotter, faster-spreading and more toxic. One engineer blames it on the world’s “addiction to polymers,” a reference to ...

Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe. On ...

Cladding remediation is pressing housebuilders and developers to begin an introspective examination of not only their buildings but their construction processes, explains Mike White, CTO at Zutec. So ...

Crews were called to a blaze on Constantine Street in the city centre at about 18:10 BST on Thursday The "external cladding and insulation" of a block of flats in Plymouth caught fire in an incident ...

The government has unveiled plans to make developers pay for the removal of unsafe cladding from homes affected by the building safety crisis. Housing secretary Michael Gove today announced a suite of ...

SINGAPORE — A manager has been convicted of cheating over a type of unsafe building cladding that was later involved in a fatal fire in Singapore as well as London’s Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 that ...