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 ...

The final report of the Grenfell Inquiry has highlighted the fact that millions of homes and offices around the world could be encased in combustible cladding and insulation panels. Lucy Barnard looks ...

Tests on the fire resistance of aluminium cladding systems in England currently suggest that at least 228 high-rise buildings, over 18 metres in height, are potential death traps. The tests, carried ...

Hundreds of leaseholders living in blocks with dangerous cladding are still facing bills of tens of thousands of pounds despite the government putting £200m towards the removal of aluminium composite ...

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Tens of thousands of UK residents are still living in high rise buildings covered with flammable cladding, 18 months after the horrific inferno that consumed Grenfell Tower, killing 72. The deadly ...

Social landlords have started removing dangerous cladding from just a third of high rises identified to have issues, with only one in six fully removed. Sharelines Just one in six blocks with ...

The company that supplied the Grenfell Tower cladding panels openly described by industry experts as akin to petrol has claimed they did not make the catastrophe inevitable. Arconic, in an opening ...

It would be “wrong and unfair” to pin the blame for the Grenfell Tower fire on the manufacturer of the building’s cladding panels, the company has told an inquiry into the 2017 disaster. Stephen ...

A London council said it has taken legal action against building owners to demand they remove Grenfell-style cladding in what it described as the first case of its kind. Tower Hamlets Council said it ...

Tower Hamlets said it is the first council in the country to bring a legal action of this kind against a freeholder of a private building (Alamy/PA) A London council said it has taken legal action ...