Residents fear new rules could mean dangerous cladding is left on blocks of flats

The government says it hopes the changes will speed up the process of removing cladding.
The Architect’s Newspaper

New York City hotel reconstruction meets compliance with ACM Cladding and Intumescent Fireblocking

Recent reconstruction breaks barriers on ACM cladding after the 2022 version of the New York City Building Code. With serving ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Why aluminium composite cladding is flammable and how buildings can be made safe

It took just 90 minutes for fire to race up 20 storeys of the Grenfell Tower in June 2017, killing 72 people. Last month, a cigarette sparked a blaze that quickly jumped five floors of Melbourne's ...
Couriermail

Combustible cladding nightmare prompts calls for urgent reform

Early downsizers to apartment living say they will “never” live in one again after being caught in a years-long stoush set to cost them hundreds of thousands, with no end in sight. The Sunday Herald ...
Dezeen

Harvard University transforms waste wool into cladding for retrofits

Grinham Research Group at Harvard University presented an insulative cladding tile made from waste wool at the Oslo ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dangerous flammable cladding found on 1,400 Victorian buildings

Dangerous, combustible cladding could be a risk on 1,400 Victorian buildings, with the potentially deadly materials identified on eight hospitals, a special taskforce has found. Further detailed ...