Traditionally, bricks have been used in architecture to fulfill a double function: structural and aesthetic. While they act as an effective and resistant modular solution in building structures, their ...

Explore the impact of local production on architectural cladding systems, enhancing timelines and quality through real-time ...

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 ...

Plans to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding, including target dates for making buildings safe and tougher penalties for refusing to act, have been announced by ministers. Under the plans, ...

Campaigners have said the government's promise of £3.5bn of extra funding to remove unsafe cladding from England's high-rises is "too little, too late". The government said flammable materials would ...

For more than three years, the cladding crisis has been affecting thousands of families. Across the UK, some kids are living in homes that have been classed as unsafe. There are families who are ...

LONDON — Around 600 high-rises are believed to be covered in similar cladding to the material suspected of worsening the deadly London apartment block fire, the British government said Thursday.

Several prominent buildings in Sydney need their cladding replaced due to fire risks, documents released under freedom of information laws have revealed. The NSW Government required buildings with ...

Flat owners will not have to pay to remove dangerous cladding from lower-height buildings under new government plans, BBC Newsnight understands. It means leaseholders in buildings of between 11 and 18 ...