Plans to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding, including target dates for making buildings safe and tougher penalties for refusing to act, have been announced by ministers. Under the plans, ...

Barratt has said there is a shortage of qualified fire engineers who are able to refit buildings to reliable safety standards in light of the Grenfell tower disaster. “We recognise that this will take ...

The country’s tower block cladding crisis may take more than a decade and up to £16.6bn to resolve, according to a report from the National Audit Office. The spending watchdog says the government has ...

Up to £3bn of public money may have to be spent assessing and removing potentially flammable cladding from buildings in Scotland. New estimates from the Scottish government suggest up to 1,450 ...

Higher than expected costs to remove cladding from Taylor Wimpey's buildings in response to the Grenfell fire tragedy have wiped out its profits, the housebuilder has said. The company made a loss in ...

A new government-backed pilot scheme to remove unsafe cladding from a small group of “orphan” medium-rise buildings has launched. The scheme will help strip cladding from 60 unsafe buildings where no ...

I am considering using Weathertex 'Natural' panels as a exterior cladding system for my new build. I would want to leave it to 'grey off' however I have not seen any examples of the product left to ...