Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Checks are being carried out on hundreds of buildings across the country, as investigations into the deadly Grenfell Tower fire ...

About 300 people were evacuated from the building after the fire in August Flammable cladding and strong winds helped a blaze spread across an apartment building after a balcony's light fitting caught ...

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 ...

A widely used type of building cladding has proven in tests to be highly flammable. Nearly three years after the inferno at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, when aluminium composite material (ACM) ...

The freeholder Wallace Estate says cladding removal work will be finished in April Building work to remove flammable cladding at a fire-hit block flats has started. Nearly 300 people were evacuated ...

Flammable cladding similar to the material which had covered Grenfell Tower is still being widely used across the UK. The combustible cladding used on Grenfell was a significant factor in allowing the ...

This story originally ran in Engineering News-Record on June 28, 2017. Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined ...