In all climate zones, the various forms of metal cladding—single-skin panels, metal composite materials (MCM) panels, and insulated metal panels (IMPs)—are proving to be reliable, durable elements on ...

Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe. On ...

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 ...

From a distance, today’s building innovations in cladding performance, aesthetics, and construction appear unconstrained and quite varied. Material mixing is creating newly expressive façades, and ...

Victoria Way has been closed several times after cladding panels fell from the hotel building.

Porte de Vanves student residence accommodates 67 units in a bow-shaped building located on a small, triangular plot. The street-facing facade consists of several superimposed flat walls, which gives ...

In a collaborative effort, Bcomp’s innovative flax fibre composites and Temca’s manufacturing expertise have been combined to create the cladding panels for the façade of the new Cité Scolaire ...

A review panel has been set up as part of an ongoing probe into how safe external panels used on buildings here are in the event of a fire. The panel will support the review of fire safety regulations ...

LONDON (Reuters) - When the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 led to revelations that high-rise public housing buildings across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LONDON — Tests so far have found that at least three high-rise apartment buildings in the U.K. have flammable external panels like the ones believed to have ...

Teams of engineers, surveyors and firefighters have been examining 1369 buildings with potentially dangerous cladding after June 2017’s London disaster, which killed 72 people. New figures from the ...

Traditional photovoltaic panels, while an excellent source of renewable solar energy, have some design flaws. One of the main drawbacks is that they require lots of ...