Sharjah Civil Defence Chief issues more fire safety measures to avert fires in towers Sharjah: Recent safety directives issued by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fire broke out in a flat in New Providence Wharf, a development covered with the same cladding that allowed the Grenfell fire to ...

Newswise — There are two major types of disasters. Unlike natural disasters like tornado and earthquake, fire belongs in the category of social accidents. Building fire accident causes significant ...

Jonathan Roper of Celotex, the company that produced the combustible cladding that fuelled the Grenfell Tower fire, has said it “behaved in a highly unethical way”, presenting “misleading” results ...

The Technology and Construction Court has delivered a series of High Court judgments (in Martlet Homes Ltd v Mulalley & Co Ltd; and LDC (Portfolio One) Ltd v George Downing Construction Ltd and ...

The government says it hopes the changes will speed up the process of removing cladding.

About 300 people were evacuated from the building after the fire in August Flammable cladding and strong winds helped a blaze spread across an apartment building after a balcony's light fitting caught ...

Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

Cladding filled with combustible material was allegedly marketed as safe throughout Australia, despite being linked to major blazes worldwide including London's catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire. The ...