New government targets to fix dangerous cladding on high-rise buildings in the next five years have been labelled as “extremely disappointing” by campaigners, who say the proposals will only ...

Product specification guide: advances in treatment and preservation are increasing timber’s sustainability Increasingly timber is being specified as a rainscreen cladding system for external walls. It ...

The massive blaze that ripped through the Abbco Tower in Sharjah last week was most probably caused by a discarded cigarette butt or shisha coals, the Sharjah Police have confirmed. Flammable cladding ...

But owners at The Quay in the inner-city suburb of Haymarket have been told they must fork out up to $30,000 per unit to pay for the dangerous material to be replaced, at a total cost of more than $12 ...

THE inferno that killed at least 12 people “is a more serious version” of a high-rise blaze that almost destroyed a Melbourne skyscraper, Senator Nick Xenophon said on Thursday morning. A ferocious ...

Since the Grenfell fire, repairs have been required to buildings with unsafe cladding. This created an affordability crisis with many flat-owners facing large bills for renovations. The government has ...

Flat owners will not have to pay to remove dangerous cladding from lower-height buildings under new government plans, BBC Newsnight understands. It means leaseholders in buildings of between 11 and 18 ...