LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Combustible materials used to refurbish London's Grenfell Tower were central to the catastrophic chain of events in June 2017 that turned an ordinary kitchen fire into an ...

A report on UK building regulations set up after the Grenfell Tower tragedy found "deep flaws" in the rules but stopped short of calling for a ban on cladding, the combustible material blamed for ...

After a fire ravaged the Grenfell tower block in Western London last June, killing 72 and leaving hundreds homeless, an in-depth investigation was launched into the cause of the fire and why it spread ...

London — More than 300 high rise buildings in the United Kingdom still have aluminum composite rain screen panels or are fitted with similar materials, according to a government and local communities ...

The final report of the Grenfell Inquiry has highlighted the fact that millions of homes and offices around the world could be encased in combustible cladding and insulation panels. Lucy Barnard looks ...

The China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) informed the IAEA yesterday that a minor fuel cladding failure had occurred at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. What are fuel cladding failures, and what do ...

The cladding used in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower was never subject to legally required fire safety tests. According to the London Times, no record of independent testing of the ...

Five years after combustible material was found at a city centre block of flats, a planning application has been made to the local authority to remove it. In 2021 PlymouthLive reported how the ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday that initial tests on other high-rise buildings after the London fire tragedy have shown that the cladding was combustible. May, made this known ...

At around 8:30 p.m. last Friday, a fire broke out in a student accommodation block in Bolton, a town in the Greater Manchester region of northwest England. The accommodation block, known as the Cube, ...