In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire last year, a number of local authorities sent samples of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding taken from council-owned buildings to a ...

Nearly 300 people were evacuated from the flats after a fire in August 2024.

Almost a third of buildings in England identified as having Grenfell-style flammable cladding have yet to undergo work to remove it, according to Government data. A total of 458 high-rise residential ...

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 ...

Safety tests conducted on about 600 high-rise buildings in England have so far found that seven contain flammable external cladding similar to that used on London’s Grenfell Tower, officials said.

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) ...

The type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower is likely to have to be removed from hundreds of buildings in order to make people safe, a housing expert has said. Hotels, private sector blocks, hospitals ...

A government panel reviewing building regulations and fire safety in England says a cladding system using aluminum composite material (ACM) with a fire-retardant polyethylene filler and phenolic foam ...