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 ...

For more than two decades, science has recognized that building fires have become hotter, faster-spreading and more toxic. One engineer blames it on the world’s “addiction to polymers,” a reference to ...

A popular cladding product that is on a number of Sydney high- rise apartment buildings is being slammed as a fire risk. But manufacturers say their materials are safe. But a spokesman for ...