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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More buildings will soon be able to access government funding to remove dangerous cladding, the government has announced. Funding was previously only available on blocks of 59ft (18m) or higher, ...

Hundreds of families are still sleeping in dangerous apartment buildings, eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire prompted governments worldwide to crack down on flammable cladding. Data obtained ...

In low-rise buildings, the roof and intermediate floors are supported by the outside walls. However, in high-rise buildings, the floor slabs and ultimately the roof is supported by systems of columns.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metropolitan Fire Brigade, CC BY Ten years ago, a late-night cigarette started a fire that spread rapidly up 13 storeys on the ...

Over the last 12 years or so, I’ve devoted the majority of my professional work to designing stone cladding and glass/aluminum cladding systems, and I’ve seen plenty of errors that could have been ...