A leading insulation firm has questioned the accuracy of the government’s large-scale cladding tests, carried out to assess the safety of systems for high rises following the Grenfell disaster.

The housing secretary has asked cladding and insulation manufacturers to fund partly the remediation of unsafe cladding on buildings between 11 and 18 metres tall. The housing secretary has asked ...

Two companies that caused outrage over their behaviour in the Grenfell scandal face being put on a Government blacklist as punishment. Ministers want them banned from all state contracts on the ...

Strongwell’s Strongirt® is the ideal continuous insulation (CI) cladding attachment support system. This all-FRP fiberglass pultruded composite uses a custom fire-retardant resin system and unique ...

Kingspan Group Plc fell to the lowest level in six months after the U.K. government threatened a trading ban on manufacturers of cladding and insulation if they refuse to pay to fix homes at risk of ...

PMQs have generated nothing but quarrels in recent weeks so Theresa May’s announcement that the government will pay for unsafe cladding to be stripped off tower blocks and replaced is a happy ...

In the wake of Grenfell, dozens of councils nationwide have been stripping polyethylene-filled panels from buildings The government has warned landlords that stripping suspect cladding from buildings ...

The government is not testing the material, which could be potentially more flammable than the cladding INSULATION behind cladding in tower blocks has not been tested for fire risks, it has emerged.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Companies that made the cladding and insulation used on Grenfell Tower will be questioned this week as an ...

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