Scotland highlights £900m funding gap for cladding remediation
As the move to identify and remove dangerous cladding on high-risk buildings continues across the UK following the Grenfell Tower fire and the inquiry’s findings, the Scottish Government has identified a £900million shortfall to carry out remediation work. Identifying those buildings with potentially dangerous cladding is a key part […]Click here to view original web…
Demand for new UK homes still outstrips supply, say building firms
Bellway and Crest Nicholson, two of Britain’s biggest housebuilders, have said demand for new houses continues to outstrip supply, pushing up prices and offsetting the rising cost of building materials and energy. Bellway posted strong sales for the four months from 1 February to 5 June, when house reservations […] Click here to view original…
ACT residential buildings remain at risk of flammable cladding
In the shadow of the five-year anniversary of the London Grenfell Tower fire, many vulnerable buildings in the ACT remain at risk of a similar, tragic fate. Currently, over 90 residential apartment buildings in the ACT are believed to be wrapped in flammable cladding materials. Flammable cladding is extremely […] Click here to view original…
Official guidance ‘oversimplified’ cladding fire tests, Grenfell inquiry hears
José Torero speaking at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry José Torero, a professor of civil engineering at University College London, said the ‘necessary attention to detail’ was missing when the fire safety of products was assessed – as first reported by the AJ’s sister publication Construction News . The BA8414 […] Click here to view original…
Scotland highlights £900m funding gap for cladding remediation
As the move to identify and remove dangerous cladding on high-risk buildings continues across the UK following the Grenfell Tower fire and the inquiry’s findings, the Scottish Government has identified a £900million shortfall to carry out remediation work. Identifying those buildings with potentially dangerous cladding is a key part […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell: officials ‘oversimplified’ cladding fire tests
José Torero The methods used to test cladding for fire risk are “full of mistakes from beginning to end”, an expert on the subject has told the Grenfell Inquiry. The inquiry quizzed José Torero on the competency of the measures last week. Torero, a professor of civil engineering at […] Click here to view original…
OPINION: Five years on from Grenfell, the Government must do more
L-R: Julian Gibbs, Chu Man, John Cook, Cllr Carole Jones, Alex Dickin, Cllr Elizabeth Johnson. – Credit: Cladiators Last week saw the fifth anniversary of one of Britain’s worst disasters in modern times – the Grenfell Tower fire. It started with a fire in a fridge freezer on the […] Click here to view original…
Dangerous cladding costs expected to top £1bn in Scotland
The cost of identifying and removing dangerous cladding from homes across Scotland is expected to reach £1 billion, it has emerged. Tomorrow the country prepares to mark the fifth anniversary on Tuesday of the Grenfell Tower disaster when 72 people died as fire tore up a tower block wrapped […] Click here to view original…
The ‘unsellable’ flats above Wales’ biggest shopping centre
There are hundreds of flats above the St David’s shopping centre in Cardiff Towering above the scores of shoppers who stroll beneath them, the St David’s shopping centre apartments in Cardiff city centre certainly look impressive from the outside. Located on the street of the same name, they were […] Click here to view original…
Disabled man carried up 6 flights of stairs in his wheelchair due to lifts repeatedly not working
A disabled tenant of a Harrow housing block has had to be carried up six flights of stairs by neighbours and fire officials after both the tower’s lifts broke, following a string of maintenance issues. Trident Point Action Group, which represents tenants at a housing association-run block in Harrow […] Click here to view original…
Cladding scandal: ‘Years into the cladding crisis, our flat may still be dangerous’
Like most other healthy, happy 10-month-olds, Henry Bartley’s main interests in life are eating, sleeping and practising his crawling technique. But Henry’s life is different from most other babies in one crucial way. He was been born into the heart of Britain’s cladding crisis, which has seen thousands of […] Click here to view original…
‘I wept when Barratt said they would pay for my cladding bill’
Residents in Thamesmead fought hard to get Barratt to pay the full costs of repairs The scales of justice are tipping all too slowly in the scandal of unsafe homes. As grieving families laid white roses beneath the burnt-out Grenfell Tower on Tuesday — five years after the fire […] Click here to view original…