A fire at a student accommodation block in Bolton has brought into sharp focus a series of major fire safety concerns that are still unresolved more than two years after the Grenfell disaster. 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) ...

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 ...

This story originally ran in Engineering News-Record on June 28, 2017. Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined ...

On the morning of September 16, a Wednesday, a discarded cigarette set fire to a pile of autumn leaves and litter outside the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Glasgow, Scotland. The main atrium filled with ...

Digital Edition: LFB yet to rule if ACM cladding played part in Ballymore fire The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is yet to determine whether ACM cladding played a part in a fire at a Ballymore residential ...

At around 8:30 p.m. last Friday, a fire broke out in a student accommodation block in Bolton, a town in the Greater Manchester region of northwest England. The accommodation block, known as the Cube, ...

The Labour Party is pressuring the government to come to the aid of homeowners living in apartments wrapped in dangerous flammable material that was the cause of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. By ...

The funds are aimed at protecting residents of buildings wrapped in flammable materials from bearing the cost of making them safe. But those impacted and some lawmakers say more support is needed. By ...

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 ...