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 ...

Details have emerged of how a fully costed plan to fit Grenfell Tower with fire-resistant cladding was dropped amid pressure from the local council to save money Cladding company D+B Facades, which ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Following a deadly residential tower fire in London, Australian authorities have been told an audit of high-rise buildings with cladding ...

Aluminium composite material cladding with a fire-retardant polyethylene filler and phenolic foam insulation has failed fire tests conducted by BRE. The tests have also identified 22 buildings over 18 ...

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The company that made the Grenfell Tower cladding told a "misleading half-truth" to a British standards board, its boss has accepted. Arconic only shared one successful fire test result with the ...