KUWAIT CITY, Feb 1: Chief of the Kuwait Fire Force, Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Mekrad, warned of the danger of the external cladding of buildings if they do not meet the safety requirements set by ...

What is External Wall Insulation (EWI)? External Wall Insulation (EWI) is a composite cladding system comprised of suitable insulation and waterproof coating which is applied to all the external walls ...

Building designers now have a plethora of cladding materials and systems to choose from, but conventional small scale fire tests may not always be appropriate. Sarah Colwell sets out the latest ...

There are no safety concerns whatsoever in Ireland with retrofitted insulation, including external cladding, the Minister for the Environment has said. Speaking in advance of a Sustainable Energy ...

Smoke billows from a fire that has engulfed the 27-storey Grenfell Tower in west London (Picture: PA) Flammable insulating material and a narrow stairwell in Grenfell Tower could have been just as ...

Crews were called to a blaze on Constantine Street in the city centre at about 18:10 BST on Thursday The "external cladding and insulation" of a block of flats in Plymouth caught fire in an incident ...

Although many building products offering lower environmental impacts are combustible, it is still possible to use them in a cladding system by testing the cladding system as a whole, as Tony Baker ...

Foam panels cladding a huge block of student flats are the same kind used at the fire-ravaged Grenfell Tower - and are now set to be completely replaced. The insulation material - Celotex RS5000 - ...

Insulation, cladding and decorative fins added to the exterior of Grenfell Tower during refurbishment made it noncompliant with building regulations, the inquiry into the disaster has found. The 1,000 ...