Information about the proposed refurbishment of Grenfell Tower provided to Kensington and Chelsea Council’s building control department showed the wrong type of cladding, the public inquiry heard ...

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 ...

Over the last 12 years or so, I’ve devoted the majority of my professional work to designing stone cladding and glass/aluminum cladding systems, and I’ve seen plenty of errors that could have been ...

The cladding crisis has escalated with Victoria's building industry in danger of grinding to a halt because building surveyors can no longer get professional indemnity insurance. Landmark Underwriting ...

The new Building Safety Act has been established with good intentions but it may end up creating a more fragmented, litigious environment for developers, contractors and architects, writes Peter ...

The terrible and sudden spread of the fire at the west London tower this week has raised questions about whether ACM cladding should be permitted on high-rise residential towers The tragedy unfolding ...

Fire safety used to sit somewhere near the edge of architectural thinking. It was addressed, documented, approved, and then quietly filed away while design decisions moved on. That approach no longer ...