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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SINGAPORE - Two more brands of aluminium composite panel used as external cladding here are being used improperly, and could pose a fire risk. This follows an announcement earlier this year that ...

Five years after 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire, which broke out on June 14, 2017, the UK government has announced plans to ban the type of cladding used to cover the external ...

U City on Franklin St is a mixed-use building by Uniting Communities and will include specialist disability accommodation and retirement residences. The building, which has been designed to achieve a ...

Tasmanians financially impacted by having to rectify buildings because of dangers associated with certain aluminium cladding have been invited to join in a class action. Have you lost money having to ...

Newsnight has obtained confidential reports that help explain how flammable material has become more common on tall buildings. Combustible cladding has been permitted based on reports arguing fires ...

SINGAPORE — A manager has been convicted of cheating over a type of unsafe building cladding that was later involved in a fatal fire in Singapore as well as London’s Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 that ...