Thousands of people are at risk of a Grenfell-style fire because of a “flawed” test that stated a type of cladding covering hundreds of tower blocks is safe, the government has been told. Fire safety ...

Nearly 100 high-rise blocks of flats in Scotland have a type of cladding that experts have warned could be unsafe for use on tall buildings, an official report has found. More than one in 10 high-rise ...

A high-pressure laminate (HPL) cladding system believed to be in use on thousands of buildings has dramatically failed a safety test, with flames ripping through a nine metre test rig in under eight ...

The repercussions from the fire tragedy at Grenfell Tower, which killed 72 people in a London high-rise in June 2017, continue to spread through the world of building fire safety. On July 18, the U.K.

The government has been criticised for focusing too narrowly on Grenfell-style cladding when other types of “untested”, potentially unsafe cladding are widely installed in the built environment. “Much ...

More people could be living in “potential death traps” than previously thought after it was revealed a second type of cladding should be removed from towerblocks two years after the Grenfell disaster.