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Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe. On ...
LONDON -- Tests on exterior building materials in other high-rise buildings conducted after the devastating west London fire has shown that some of the panels submitted were combustible, British Prime ...
Bosses at Hull Royal Infirmary have been told they must strip the outside of the hospital's main building, because it does ...
As clean up commences at the Grenfell Tower site and preparations are made for squaring away surviving residents in a nearby luxury complex, one huge question remains — how does London prevent another ...
The Government was on Friday urged to do more in tackling dangerous cladding seven years on from the Grenfell Tower fire. Tom Copley, the capital’s deputy mayor for housing, warned that leaseholders ...
Just about everything went wrong when London's Grenfell Tower started to burn in the June 14 blaze that killed 79 people. Now at least 11 other high-rise buildings across the city will need to be ...
Research since the Grenfell Tower tragedy, which killed 72 people in a London high-rise fire in June 2017, has failed to settle all the questions about building cladding and fire safety in the UK.
After highly flammable cladding was discovered to have been one of the main contributors to the catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire that claimed at least 79 lives, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s ...
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) ...
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 ...
Grenfell Tower-style building cladding catastrophically failed a government test. The material should have resisted flames for 40 minutes. It lasted less than 9. At its hottest recorded point, the ...
The unburned lower floors of the Grenfell Tower with untouched cladding still in place and the burnt out upper floors above.Credit...Niklas Halle'N/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images When things go ...