Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower, the west London apartment block which killed at least 80 people when it burned down in June, caught ...

The Labour Party is pressuring the government to come to the aid of homeowners living in apartments wrapped in dangerous flammable material that was the cause of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. By ...

Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe. On ...

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 ...

Research since the Grenfell Tower tragedy, which killed 72 people in a London high-rise fire in June 2017, has failed to settle all the questions about building cladding and fire safety in the UK.

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 ...

LONDON — The government has offered free cladding testing to landlords in a desperate effort to identify potentially dangerous buildings following the Grenfell Tower disaster. The government has ...

From a distance, today’s building innovations in cladding performance, aesthetics, and construction appear unconstrained and quite varied. Material mixing is creating newly expressive façades, and ...

The Building Safety Regulator has launched a fresh recovery plan to cut long-running delays on higher-risk building cladding remediation schemes. It includes setting up a new dedicated taskforce, ...

Unsafe cladding in London won’t be fixed for a 'long time' despite Grenfell tragedy, Sadiq Khan admits - The capital has more than double the number of dangerous buildings than the rest of the country ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LONDON — Tests so far have found that at least three high-rise apartment buildings in the U.K. have flammable external panels like the ones believed to have ...