Building designers now have a plethora of cladding materials and systems to choose from, but conventional small scale fire tests may not always be appropriate. Sarah Colwell sets out the latest ...

From a distance, today’s building innovations in cladding performance, aesthetics, and construction appear unconstrained and quite varied. Material mixing is creating newly expressive façades, and ...

A local authority knew that cladding on an area of a building that caught fire last week was similar to that which contributed to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Nearly 300 people were evacuated from ...

Metal cladding is on a growth trajectory globally. This is reflected in rising demand for rainscreen cladding, which market research firm VMR values currently at over $10 billion worldwide, and ...

MSPs have voted in favour of the general principles of a bill that aims to raise money to repair unsafe cladding.

Ten years ago, a late-night cigarette started a fire that spread rapidly up 13 storeys on the Lacrosse apartment building in Melbourne. The November 24 fire caused more than A$5.7 million in damages, ...

Dr Simon Lockrey owns property which was built with non-compliant cladding, even though it was signed off and sold as compliant. Trivess Moore has received funding from various organisations including ...

Usha Iyer-Raniga is Vice President, Education (ACTS). She is on advisory boards/committees such as the Property Council's Sustainability and Wellness Committee. Kevin Argus does not work for, consult, ...

Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval. A draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, ...