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 ...

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 government said a process carried out by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) showed that certain cladding systems using aluminium composite material with a category two fire-resistant ...

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) ...

Residents of a block that had Grenfell-style cladding installed at the time of a major fire in 2021 have praised the remediation process, but called for tougher rules for smoking on balconies after a ...