Formally a 7-story shelter for New York residents, 225 East 45th Street has adopted a new identity. Now known as New Providence, the building supports 131 units of affordable/supportive housing, 170 ...

The UK government failed to warn the building sector about the potential dangers around aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding despite a test in 2001 which showed a “catastrophic escalation” of ...

Jonathan Sakula, an expert with 30 years’ experience in the facades industry, said the combustibility of building systems similar to that used at the west London tower block were well known. According ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Nearly five years after the Grenfell Tower fire, 40% of buildings in England with the same type of cladding have not been made safe, new figures show. The flammable cladding panels have been blamed ...

Developers who covered tower blocks in unsafe cladding have paid back less than 3% of the cash lent out by the government to make buildings safe, sparking accusations they are “getting away with it”.

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 ...