The judge leading the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has ruled that the cladding installed on the tower did not comply with building regulations, finding that the polyethylene-cored panels were the “primary ...
Government guidance before the Grenfell fire “endorsed” the deadly cladding panels used on the tower, one of the inquiry’s expert witnesses has concluded. Government guidance before the Grenfell fire ...
Tom Hopson, associate director of Encore Estate Mangement talks about the importance of the removal and replacement of ACM cladding and the government's new Building Safety Programme. As yet another ...
The Labour Party questioned the ability of Tory ministers to fix the “crisis” as it was revealed 315 high-rise buildings are still covered in flammable aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding more ...
The architecture expert to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has said government guidance endorsed the installation of combustible aluminium composite panels on the west London tower block Paul Hyett, a ...
In the latest figures revealed by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG), remediation works to remove and replace unsafe Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) cladding have either ...
The supplier of the ACM cladding used on Grenfell Tower changed the composition of one of its products without informing a UK certifying body, the inquiry has heard. Arconic added chemicals to the ...
More than 100 firefighters were called today to a block of flats in east London designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), which were wrapped in combustible cladding similar to that used on ...