Although many building products offering lower environmental impacts are combustible, it is still possible to use them in a cladding system by testing the cladding system as a whole, as Tony Baker ...

The government announced plans to carry out tests on 600 buildings across the country after the Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington, west London, on 14 June. External cladding has been ...

The danger to people in burning buildings is greater ... the lower story that sends flames out the window and onto the exterior cladding. The propane burners used—one in the lower-level room ...

James Hardie Building Products Inc. (James Hardie), a subsidiary of James Hardie Industries plc (ASX: JHX; NYSE: JHX) and the ...

Exterior wall cladding systems form the exposed “skin” or the exterior finish of a building. They are the visible, aesthetic face of a building but are dependent on everything behind that face. That ...

A new glass-based building cladding material could help boost that number. Unlike siding, which is applied directly to the exterior surface of a building, cladding is applied in such a way that ...

In two hours, flames had engulfed the entire building, killing ten people ... by the use of flammable materials in the high-rise’s cladding. They said the fire showed that seven years after ...

Flammable cladding on a block of town centre flats ... The report continues saying the building has external walls that include "a large portion of combustible materials" and the consequences ...

A resident of the building said the incident felt like ... This project consists of remedial work to external cladding to the fifth and sixth floors, removing the non-compliant cladding.” ...