The housing block is a typical four-storey unit. Apart from the cast-concrete ground slab, all the internal floor slabs, walls and external cladding are factory-made, 150mm-thick, precast-concrete ...

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 ...

Composites bring to architecture the same benefits that other sectors have already exploited. At 20 percent of the weight of stone or concrete cladding, a composite exterior can significantly reduce ...

SINGAPORE - A review panel has been set up as part of an ongoing probe into how safe the external panels used on buildings here are in the event of a fire. The panel will support the review of ...