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 ...

State and federal governments in Australia have reacted to the Grenfell Tower fire disaster in London with calls for urgent safety checks into the use of non-fire resistant aluminium composite panel ...

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 ...

Residents' representatives fear that any flammable materials left in place can lead to a lower fire safety rating - even after repairs. In turn, this could result in permanently higher building ...

Cladding remediation is pressing housebuilders and developers to begin an introspective examination of not only their buildings but their construction processes, explains Mike White, CTO at Zutec. So ...

Builders in Victoria will be put on notice that they must not use dangerous flammable cladding on the outside of medium and high-rise buildings, after the Victorian Government ordered the construction ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A list of 444 buildings across NSW potentially clad in flammable material has been released to the NSW Parliament, but will not be shown ...

There’s no sector of the Gulf construction industry that has garnered more news headlines or general alarm in recent times than cladding and façades, in the wake of a series of dramatic fires in super ...

A health and safety inspector discovered cladding that posed a serious fire risk lying on residents’ balconies at a Liverpool apartment block, resulting in a fine of £240,000 for the construction ...

One of Britain's biggest housebuilders has set aside £125million to fix fire-trap flats after posting profits of £264million last year. Taylor Wimpey said the fund would 'provide certainty' for ...