On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force. Paul Tonkin answers some key questions. The ban does not ...

The type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower is likely to have to be removed from hundreds of buildings in order to make people safe, a housing expert has said. Hotels, private sector blocks, hospitals ...

‘Ambitious’ target to remove 95% of ACM cladding by end of 2021 has been missed.

The Government has been warned it still “has a long way to go” to strip all high-rise buildings of dangerous cladding like that which covered Grenfell Tower. Some 300 buildings are still undergoing ...

A widely used type of building cladding has proven in tests to be highly flammable. Nearly three years after the inferno at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, when aluminium composite material (ACM) ...

Glasgow City Council has revealed that more than 50 privately owned tower blocks in the city may contain aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding. Council leader Susan Aitken said in a letter to ...

A government panel reviewing building regulations and fire safety in England says a cladding system using aluminum composite material (ACM) with a fire-retardant polyethylene filler and phenolic foam ...

More than half of social housing high-rise blocks are yet to have their aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding removed and replaced, less than four months before a government-imposed deadline.

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman said: "It is shocking that seven years after the devastating Grenfell Tower fire there are still high-rise buildings clad in ACM" An east London council has taken ...

More than 100 firefighters were called today to a block of flats in east London designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), which were wrapped in combustible cladding similar to that used on ...

On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force. Paul Tonkin answers some key questions. The ban does not ...