It took just 90 minutes for fire to race up 20 storeys of the Grenfell Tower in June 2017, killing 72 people. Last month, a cigarette sparked a blaze that quickly jumped five floors of Melbourne's ...

Aluminum composite panels cladding London’s Grenfell Tower were the main reason for the 23-story residential block becoming totally enveloped in flames in under three hours after a refrigerator caught ...

Look at the walls of most modern buildings. Sleek. Smooth. Sometimes glossy, sometimes matte. That’s not regular paint or plaster. Most of the time, it’s aluminium cladding panels. These panels are ...

Vendors wanting to sell their apartments would have to disclose if the buildings contain potentially flammable cladding under proposed new laws. Attorney-General Vickie Chapman has revealed her ...

A ban on cladding deemed by the Victorian Government to be high risk comes into force today in a bid to reduce fire hazards. Multi-storey developments will not be able to use flammable aluminium ...

Newsnight has obtained confidential reports that help explain how flammable material has become more common on tall buildings. Combustible cladding has been permitted based on reports arguing fires ...

These durable metal facade systems add weather protection and unique visual interest to exterior elevations. Read about new products by Chemetal, Alucobond, Banker Wire, Linetec, and Kaynemaile. This ...

The cladding on the 24-storey tower is being blamed for the catastrophic nature of the fire that destroyed the tower in June. In the wake of that deadly blaze, the Justice Department’s consumer ...

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