While state governments have banned the use of aluminium composite panels — the deadly material that fuelled the Grenfell and other blazes — industry experts are alarmed that governments and ...

More than half of council tower blocks in Bristol have flammable polystyrene cladding which will be removed after a fire last month. Removing the cladding could take a decade and fire safety experts ...

A series of cladding systems failed fire tests carried out for the government in 2004, but the results were never revealed before the materials were installed on thousands of buildings, a new document ...

Flammable cladding on several council tower blocks in Bristol could be removed more quickly than was initially hoped. A fire in 2022 led to fears that many of the dated blocks of flats were clad in ...

Elderly residents living in a "freezing cold" council tower block could receive financial support for heating costs. After Bristol City Council removed the flammable cladding from Gilton House in July ...

Thousands of council tenants in homes at higher risk of fire could see their cladding replaced faster than expected Flammable cladding on dozens of tower blocks could be replaced faster than ...

Victoria is cracking down on the use of potentially flammable cladding like that found in London's deadly Grenfell Tower blaze. Aluminium cladding panels with a polyethylene core of more than 30 per ...

A taskforce has identified eight hospitals with non-compliant cladding that must be replaced. Urgent rectification works are already taking place at the Royal Women’s Hospital. The hospitals that must ...

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