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) ...

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 ...

Checks are being carried out on hundreds of buildings across the country, as investigations into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire continue. So far the Government has received samples from 60 high-rise ...

Almost a third of buildings in England identified as having Grenfell-style flammable cladding have yet to undergo work to remove it, according to Government data. A total of 458 high-rise residential ...

A government panel reviewing building regulations and fire safety in England says a cladding system using aluminum composite material (ACM) with a fire-retardant polyethylene filler and phenolic foam ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grenfell Tower was covered in a cladding known as aluminium composite material (ACM) (PA Wire) The Government was on Friday urged ...

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 ...

Government funding to remove dangerous Grenfell-style cladding from privately-owned tower blocks has been approved for just one building, official figures show. The Labour Party questioned the ability ...

Six of the eight hospitals told Insider they had not removed or did not plan to remove ACM cladding, the flammable building material related to the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in 2017.

Action has also been taken by local authorities and emergency services on at least 65 buildings with unsafe ACM cladding in their respective areas, with the majority of building owners starting ...

A coronavirus intensive-care unit at risk of burning because parts of its structure were made by the same company whose cladding products exacerbated the 2017 Grenfell Tower blaze was closed this week ...