Social landlords have shared details of the type of cladding they have on their tower blocks in a snap survey by Inside Housing. Inside Housing has asked social landlords which have cladded tower ...

A factory which makes non-combustible materials used in cladding wants to expand in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. A production line at Rockwool Ltd, in Pencoed, was mothballed in 2008 when ...

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 ...

The government has been accused of a “futile desperation to contain the cladding scandal” as it prepares to combine high-pressure laminate (HPL) material with non-combustible insulation in its ...

Cladding from about 600 tower blocks in England has been removed as part of a national safety operation Thermal cladding is to be removed from 11 London tower blocks as a precaution following the ...

Although many building products offering lower environmental impacts are combustible, it is still possible to use them in a cladding system by testing the cladding system as a whole, as Tony Baker ...

A Tory donor’s private equity firm was a major investor in the construction company accused of saving £5,000 by fitting cheaper and more flammable cladding to Grenfell Tower. Mayfair-based Coller ...

There has been much focus recently on the use of cladding above 18m in height and the ban on combustible materials in external wall construction of such buildings. But far less has been discussed ...