On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force. Paul Tonkin answers some key questions. The ban does not ...

Equans has launched legal action against French materials manufacturer Arconic over a north London council block ...

Flammable cladding similar to the material which had covered Grenfell Tower is still being widely used across the UK. The combustible cladding used on Grenfell was a significant factor in allowing the ...

A widely used type of building cladding has proven in tests to be highly flammable. Nearly three years after the inferno at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, when aluminium composite material (ACM) ...

The type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower is likely to have to be removed from hundreds of buildings in order to make people safe, a housing expert has said. Hotels, private sector blocks, hospitals ...

Safety tests conducted on about 600 high-rise buildings in England have so far found that seven contain flammable external cladding similar to that used on London’s Grenfell Tower, officials said.

Government-commissioned tests on non-Grenfell-style cladding will begin in March, with the results expected to be published in the summer. Government tests on non-ACM cladding to start in March ...

An east London council has taken legal action against a private building owner to remove Grenfell-style cladding from a high-rise property. Tower Hamlets Council has secured a remediation order, which ...

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 ...

Less than £1.5m of £200m allocated to remove dangerous cladding from high-rise buildings in the private sector has been handed out, a damning report by the UK’s spending watchdog has revealed. An ...

Three years after the Grenfell Tower fire, hundreds of buildings still have unsafe cladding The government still has a "long way to go" to strip all high-rise buildings of dangerous cladding similar ...

The owners of tall buildings face pressure to continue removing dangerous cladding, despite coronavirus, after a new fire test showed how quickly flames can spread. Cladding previously deemed safer ...