In May 2017, Sophie Bichener did what many in their twenties are unable to do: buy a home. She paid around £230,000 (around $295,000 at the time) for her two-bedroom apartment in a high-rise building ...

Michael Gove has announced a new scheme to tackle the cladding crisis which has been a pressing matter for the government since the 2017 Grenfell disaster. The housing and levelling up secretary says ...

Metal cladding is on a growth trajectory globally. This is reflected in rising demand for rainscreen cladding, which market research firm VMR values currently at over $10 billion worldwide, and ...

The Building Safety Act was put in place following the Grenfell Tower tragedy and the discovery that many other high-rise residential buildings have serious fire-safety defects. Phil Westerman The ...

Cladding is a sought-after solution on renovation and extension projects across the UK. But with composite and timber both popular options, how do they actually compare? Both types of cladding have ...

Trivess Moore has received funding from various organisations including the Australian Research Council, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Victorian Government and various industry ...

A package of measures has today been announced by the Government in a bid to help flat-owners in England who've struggled to foot the bill to fix unsafe cladding on their high rise blocks in the wake ...

Taylor Wimpey's profits have been wiped out by higher-than-expected costs to remove cladding from its buildings in response to the Grenfell fire tragedy. The company made a loss in the first half of ...

Where to begin? The Grenfell Inquiry, launched three months after a fire in Grenfell Tower in West London claimed 72 lives, is now in its third year and still ongoing. Since beginning in September ...

The UK government has announced £3.5bn ($4.8bn) extra funding and two new taxes on developers to fix the cladding scandal, promising leaseholders in high-rise blocks in England will face no costs for ...