MILAN — Italian firefighters tackled hot spots Monday in a 20-storey apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire but said there were no indications that anyone was missing inside, as questions arose about the cladding that witnesses said rapidly fuelled the fire. Some cases of smoke inhalation […]Click here to view original web…

Smoke billows from a building in Milan, Italy, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. Firefighters were battling a blaze on Sunday that spread rapidly through a recently restructured 60-meter-high, 16-story residential building in Milan. There were no immediate reports of injuries or deaths. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno) Smoke billows from a residential […] Click here to view original…

MILAN — Italian firefighters tackled hot spots Monday in a 20-story apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire but said there were no indications that anyone was missing inside, as questions arose about the cladding that witnesses said rapidly fueled the fire. Some cases of smoke inhalation […] Click here to view original…

MILAN (AP) — Italian firefighters tackled hot spots Monday in a 20-story apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire but said there were no indications that anyone was missing inside, as questions arose about the cladding that witnesses said rapidly fueled the fire. Some cases of smoke […] Click here to view original…

MILAN — Italian firefighters tackled hot spots Monday in a 20-storey apartment building in Milan that was destroyed by fire but said there were no indications that anyone was missing inside, as questions arose about the cladding that witnesses said rapidly fuelled the fire. Some cases of smoke inhalation […] Click here to view original…

Tenants who escaped from a burning Milan tower block have compared the blaze to the Grenfell Tower disaster after the building’s ‘fire-proof’ cladding ‘melted like butter’. Fears are now growing that the 20-storey apartment block is facing the risk of collapse, after temperatures blazed through the outer shell, making […] Click here to view original…

St Francis Tower in Ipswich has been hit by a water leak Families living in an Ipswich tower with unsafe cladding are facing yet another housing issue after water started gushing near the base of their building. Footage shared with this newspaper reveals a substantial leak at St Francis […] Click here to view original…

St Francis Tower in Ipswich has been hit by a water leak Families living in an Ipswich tower with unsafe cladding are facing yet another housing issue after water started gushing near the base of their building. Footage shared with this newspaper reveals a substantial leak at St Francis […] Click here to view original…

Chalcots Estate in Camden. Photo credit: Julian Osley, Geograph Graham has landed the £22m recladding and safety works for a tower on the Chalcots Estate in North London. As reported on Construction News earlier this year , the contract for the estate’s Blashford tower has been procured separately from […] Click here to view original…

Naomi in her flat on the day she got her keys, innocent of what lay ahead Naomi Attar was given the soul destroying news her home in Colindale was unsafe to live in almost two years ago. The cladding, timber balconies and insulation on the building were found to […] Click here to view original…

Cladding campaigners have staged a protest at the famous Sky Pool to demand that developers pay to make their homes safe. Campaign group Action for Fire Safety Justice gathered in Nine Elms on Saturday with tenants and leaseholders who are still living in unsafe conditions. They are demanding that […] Click here to view original…

St Paul’s RC Academy. Grenfell Tower cladding which encased a Dundee school has finally been removed, it has been confirmed. It has been approximately four years since the potentially fatal insulation was first highlighted at St Paul’s RC Academy. St Paul’s external walls were clad with Reynobond PE, which […] Click here to view original…