Grenfell Tower fire death toll rises to 80, more U.K. buildings fail cladding tests Corporate manslaughter possible in London tower fire: police ...

We need solutions for leaseholders in buildings under 11m and clarity on what today’s announcement means for the thousands in buildings under 18m who have already paid or are being asked to pay for ...

Britain said it would give an additional £3.5-billion ($4.8-billion) to remove dangerous cladding on high-rise residential buildings, more than three years after flammable cladding was blamed for ...

Since the Grenfell fire, just £2.3 billion had been spent by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) on the remediation of buildings with unsafe cladding as of August 2024.

A £15m legal claim over flammable cladding on a high-rise in London has ended after the parties agreed to an undisclosed ...

The current regime for testing the safety of cladding or other building materials “may be neither rigorous nor as effectively enforced as it should be”, according to Moore-Bick.

Flammable cladding has been replaced on just one high-rise housing block out of 5,500 in Scotland, seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire #UKhousing Just one building in Scotland has had its ...

"We just want to try and get these buildings safe." The current project to remedy the external cladding was only agreed after a damning 2022 report from engineering firm Urban Change.

The cause of the fire on was not immediately known but in the past, such infernos in Dubai have been linked to highly flammable building cladding — as was the devastating June tower fire in ...

Highly flammable cladding used on ‘thousands’ of Australian buildings despite suppliers knowing risks AM Sun 3 Sep 2017 at 3:20pm 3m 20s ...

What is the problem? A spotlight was cast on the use of flammable materials in the construction of high-rise buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, which killed 72 people.