The fire at the residential tower block in North Kensington, west London, on the night of June 24, 2017, triggered a public inquiry, chaired by Sir Martin Moore-Bick. It has examined the circumstances ...

GRENFELL Tower had MORE insulated cladding installed on the outside of the building than was needed to avoid having to repeat the job. A planning report shows the developers, hired by the Royal ...

The housing secretary has asked cladding and insulation manufacturers to fund partly the remediation of unsafe cladding on buildings between 11 and 18 metres tall. The housing secretary has asked ...

PMQs have generated nothing but quarrels in recent weeks so Theresa May’s announcement that the government will pay for unsafe cladding to be stripped off tower blocks and replaced is a happy ...

Strongwell’s Strongirt® is the ideal continuous insulation (CI) cladding attachment support system. This all-FRP fiberglass pultruded composite uses a custom fire-retardant resin system and unique ...

Major insulation and cladding manufacturers have engaged in “sinister” attempts to undermine building regulations and have manipulated the testing regime to present dangerous products as safe, the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Companies that made the cladding and insulation used on Grenfell Tower will be questioned this week as an ...

The government is not testing the material, which could be potentially more flammable than the cladding INSULATION behind cladding in tower blocks has not been tested for fire risks, it has emerged.

Two companies that caused outrage over their behaviour in the Grenfell scandal face being put on a Government blacklist as punishment. Ministers want them banned from all state contracts on the ...

Kingspan Group Plc fell to the lowest level in six months after the U.K. government threatened a trading ban on manufacturers of cladding and insulation if they refuse to pay to fix homes at risk of ...