Ten years ago, a late-night cigarette started a fire that spread rapidly up 13 storeys on the Lacrosse apartment building in Melbourne. The November 24 fire caused more than A$5.7 million in damages, ...

Up to 1,450 residential buildings may need remediation work, including about 250 high-rises Up to £3bn of public money may have to be spent assessing and removing potentially flammable cladding from ...

Metal cladding is on a growth trajectory globally. This is reflected in rising demand for rainscreen cladding, which market research firm VMR values currently at over $10 billion worldwide, and ...

The National Audit Office (NAO) said up to 60% of buildings with dangerous cladding still haven't been identified by the government The government could miss its own cladding removal completion date ...

Landlords urged to send cladding for testing amid fears other buildings are vulnerable to a Grenfell-style blaze. Department for Communities and Local Government admits "much public concern" about the ...

Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

Some unsafe buildings may never be identified, National Audit Office says Three in five buildings with dangerous cladding have yet to be identified, according to a report by the National Audit Office.

Ministers still do not know how many buildings are wrapped in the same deadly cladding as Grenfell Tower, despite it being seven years since the disaster. The damning final report into the blaze that ...

The list includes 17 buildings found to be non-compliant after a 2015 audit by the Victorian Building Association and a further 13 found to be below code in a subsequent audit that focused on the ...

The Labour Party is pressuring the government to come to the aid of homeowners living in apartments wrapped in dangerous flammable material that was the cause of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. By ...