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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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.

In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire last year, a number of local authorities sent samples of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding taken from council-owned buildings to a ...

As recently as 2014, the UK government was warned of the risks of using combustible aluminum composite material (ACM) cladding on buildings and did nothing to stop its use or warn the population. The ...

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 ...

London — A combination of polyisocyanurate (PIR) insulation with an unmodified polyethylene-filled ACM cladding panel has failed the first large-scale fire resistance test of insulation following the ...

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 ...

Homeowners have protested against the cladding crisis in the wake of the New Providence Wharf fire. Residents living in flats with ACM cladding gathered in Isle of Dogs, east London, on Saturday to ...

On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force. Paul Tonkin answers some key questions. The ban does not ...