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 ...

What is External Wall Insulation (EWI)? External Wall Insulation (EWI) is a composite cladding system comprised of suitable insulation and waterproof coating which is applied to all the external walls ...

KUWAIT CITY, Feb 1: Chief of the Kuwait Fire Force, Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Mekrad, warned of the danger of the external cladding of buildings if they do not meet the safety requirements set by ...

There are no safety concerns whatsoever in Ireland with retrofitted insulation, including external cladding, the Minister for the Environment has said. Speaking in advance of a Sustainable Energy ...

Building designers now have a plethora of cladding materials and systems to choose from, but conventional small scale fire tests may not always be appropriate. Sarah Colwell sets out the latest ...

Crews were called to a blaze on Constantine Street in the city centre at about 18:10 BST on Thursday The "external cladding and insulation" of a block of flats in Plymouth caught fire in an incident ...

The cladding panels installed on Grenfell Tower in the 2012-2016 refurbishment were the primary cause of the fire spreading up the outside of the building, the official inquiry has been told.

Firms which refurbished Grenfell Tower appeared to know two years before the disaster that a new cladding system would fail if exposed to fire, emails disclosed to the public inquiry suggest. Internal ...