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 ...

Residents' representatives fear that any flammable materials left in place can lead to a lower fire safety rating - even ...

London — The U.K. government announced an extra 3.5 billion pounds ($4.8 billion) of relief funding Wednesday to help millions of homeowners whose properties have been made unsellable by the discovery ...

Last week, counselors representing the bereaved and survivors of London’s 2017 Grenfell fire presented a range of internal documents to the inquiry from Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan, illustrating a ...

FILE PHOTO: The burnt remains of the Grenfell apartment tower is seen in North Kensington LONDON (Reuters) - Combustible materials used to refurbish London's Grenfell Tower were central to the ...

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) ...

LONDON (AP) — A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a “death trap” where 72 ...

Ministers have been pressed over why “crooks” running a firm that made the cladding on Grenfell Tower that was devastated in a fire eight years ago are “not behind bars”. The tower block was covered ...

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 ...

Grenfell Tower-style building cladding catastrophically failed a government test. The material should have resisted flames for 40 minutes. It lasted less than 9. At its hottest recorded point, the ...

Grenfell Tower's management shunned safer cladding to save money. Leaked emails show pressure for "good costs." Downing Street rebuked Kensington and Chelsea council for cancelling public meeting. CEO ...

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.