The cladding panels and insulation boards used on the walls of Grenfell Tower contributed roughly equal amounts of suffocating gas to the toxic smoke that trapped and killed the victims of the blaze, ...

GRENFELL Tower had MORE insulated cladding installed on the outside of the building than was needed to avoid having to repeat the job. A planning report shows the developers, hired by the Royal ...

The use of cladding on the Grenfell Tower was “wholly unorthodox” and it would therefore be “wrong and unfair” to hold the manufacturer responsible for the 2017 fire, an inquiry heard on Tuesday.

A leading insulation firm has questioned the accuracy of the government’s large-scale cladding tests, carried out to assess the safety of systems for high rises following the Grenfell disaster.

Italian chemical and development group Acell (Milan, Italy) has already earned kudos in the construction composites industry with its innovative foam-cored sandwich panels for doors (click on “SMC ...

AN urgent review of tower block safety was launched yesterday after cladding on Grenfell Tower was blamed for spreading the inferno. Panels designed to improve energy efficiency were fitted to the ...

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 ...

Look at the walls of most modern buildings. Sleek. Smooth. Sometimes glossy, sometimes matte. That’s not regular paint or plaster. Most of the time, it’s aluminium cladding panels. These panels are ...

In all climate zones, the various forms of metal cladding—single-skin panels, metal composite materials (MCM) panels, and insulated metal panels (IMPs)—are proving to be reliable, durable elements on ...

Expert witness tells inquiry of 20 serious fires that meant danger of panels was well known in industry The builders who erected the Grenfell Tower facade that burst into flames killing 72 people ...

PUTRAJAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The cladding panels used on the exterior of Malaysia's pension fund building in Selangor that caught fire on Tuesday (Feb 13) were made of "polystyrene foam" ...