KUWAIT CITY, Feb 1: Chief of the Kuwait Fire Force, Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Mekrad, warned of the danger of the external cladding of buildings if they do not meet the safety requirements set by ...

Although many building products offering lower environmental impacts are combustible, it is still possible to use them in a cladding system by testing the cladding system as a whole, as Tony Baker ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Alastair Grant, The Associated Press A view of the charred facade of the Grenfell Tower in London, Thursday, June 15, 2017. A massive fire raced through the ...

The Fire Protection Association (FPA) has won the right to carry out BS8414 tests backed by UKAS accreditation. BS8414, which comprises two parts, concerns the fire performance of external cladding ...

A raging fire that consumed a luxury skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates on New Year’s Eve is raising concerns about the safety of a number of ultra-high towers that have come to define ...

People have been evacuated from tower blocks in north London Cladding on 259 high-rise buildings has failed fire safety tests, latest figures reveal. The government announced plans to carry out tests ...

An audit of Perth buildings to check whether Grenfell Tower-style cladding has been used will be widened following the discovery of combustible external panels on an apartment block in Leederville. WA ...

Several tower blocks in Bristol are being refurbished with new cladding at the moment. With work taking place, or recently completed, at blocks in Barton Hill, Ashton and near St Mary Redcliffe. There ...