BBC

The Birmingham flats covered in plastic as cladding removed

It has been two years since residents at a block of flats in Birmingham were told cladding was making their homes unsafe. Islington Gates is among the first developments in the country to undergo ...
Domain

Apartment owners face millions of dollars in re-cladding bills following landmark ruling

Thousands of apartment owners across Australia who thought they were safe from potentially deadly cladding fires now face millions of dollars in bills to remove and replace timber-based panels. In a ...
The Independent

London fire: Authorities need to reconsider common practice of cladding buildings in metal sheets, experts say

Authorities may need to ban the cladding used on the outside of Grenfell Tower, experts have said. The cladding – metal panels that were stuck on the outside of the building to help insulate and ...
Building

Fears of fresh crisis as London council finds unsafe plastic cladding on 600 homes

Barnet Council alerts DLUHC to risks posed by timber-frame homes fitted with UPVC panels Barnet Council has discovered that hundreds of its low-rise timber-frame homes were fitted with plastic ...