Jonathan Sakula, an expert with 30 years’ experience in the facades industry, said the combustibility of building systems similar to that used at the west London tower block were well known. According ...
Manager told Arconic of expert’s prediction that ACM panels would burn like a ‘truck of 19,000 litre oil’ The firm which sold combustible cladding panels used on the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower ...
A technical manager at the maker of the Grenfell Tower cladding told colleagues poor fire test results on the product needed to be kept "very confidential". The request, in capital letters, was in an ...
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 ...
The UK government failed to warn the building sector about the potential dangers around aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding despite a test in 2001 which showed a “catastrophic escalation” of ...
A senior manager at Arconic wrote an internal document in 2007 pondering what its responsibility would be if a fire involving its product killed “60 or 70” people in a high-rise building, the inquiry ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fire broke out in a flat in New Providence Wharf, a development covered with the same cladding that allowed the Grenfell fire to ...
An under-construction Newcastle student block is being built with the same ‘combustible’ cladding fixed on the side of the London tower where a fire killed at least 79 people. The Shield Building - ...
It would be “wrong and unfair” to pin the blame for the Grenfell Tower fire on the manufacturer of the building’s cladding panels, the company has told an inquiry into the 2017 disaster. Incredible ...
On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force. Paul Tonkin answers some key questions. The ban does not ...
Jonathan Sakula, an expert with 30 years’ experience in the facades industry, said the combustibility of building systems similar to that used at the west London tower block were well known. According ...
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