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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Metal cladding is on a growth trajectory globally. This is reflected in rising demand for rainscreen cladding, which market research firm VMR values currently at over $10 billion worldwide, and ...

THE State Government has moved to ban potentially deadly aluminium composite panel cladding on many buildings, as investigations continue into whether the Launceston General Hospital contains the ...

Composite aluminum and polyester-coated panels were used to clad the outside of Grenfell Tower in a renovation a year before Wednesday’s devastating blaze. The panels, which were added in a £10m ...

Architectural Fabrication and Armetco Systems today announced the strategic merger of their operations, bringing together two ...

Alcoa Architectural Products of France has launched a new aluminium cladding panel that cleans both itself and the surrounding air. “These cladding features mean the building is no longer just a ...

Beech Court is one of nine Salford blocks that will have cladding removed Residents in more than 850 flats have been told cladding will be removed from their tower blocks in Salford. Aluminium ...