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 ...

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 ...

The rain-screen cladding, typically made from wood, metal or plastic, used on the side of the residential tower in west London may have helped the massive fire to spread through all 24 storeys within ...

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 ...

Cladding will be removed from two high-rise blocks of flats in Oxford after it failed fire safety tests. Oxford City Council said Evenlode and Windrush towers in Blackbird Leys will have their ...