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 ...

THE State Government has moved to ban potentially deadly aluminium composite panel cladding on many buildings, as investigations continue into whether the Launceston General Hospital contains the ...

Aluminum composite panels cladding London’s Grenfell Tower were the main reason for the 23-story residential block becoming totally enveloped in flames in under three hours after a refrigerator caught ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Tasmania. Followed categories will be added to My News. The Federal Court of Australia said in an advertisement the class action involved Vitrabond PE and ...