Tally of high-rise residences still with combustible cladding is ‘shocking’
Grenfell / Shutterstock: 1379618939 A Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Select Committee report states that of those 11,300 buildings, about 1,700 are classed as high-risk and are likely to require urgent remediation. “Three years since the Grenfell Tower fire, to still have 2,000 high-risk residential buildings with dangerous […]Click here to view original web…
ABI Comment on MHCLG announcements on building safety
Following the announcement by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, of changes to the Approved Document B to extend the provision of sprinklers in new residential buildings over 11m in height, James Dalton, Director of General Insurance Policy, commented; “We welcome the Government’s update to Approved Document […] Click here to view original…
Britain: Grenfell three years on – statues come down whilst cladding remains up
14 June 2020 marked the third year since the sickening tragedy of Grenfell tower, in which years of negligence by Tory-run governments and the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council led to a fire that claimed the lives of 72 people. The pain of that incident still resonates deeply […] Click here to view original…
Cladding fire ratings still misunderstood, says manufacturer
32 minutes Lack of understanding of the updated Euroclass fire rating standard is bringing additional cost, confusion and quality issues to a sector faced with recladding more than 2,000 high rise building in England alone, a cladding manufacturer is warning. MPS powder coating facility Replacing BS476, the European rating […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell Tower memorial held, as it’s revealed 2,000 residential blocks still covered in dangerous cladding
A woman prays beside a wall where messages of support have been written, surrounding Grenfell tower in west London (Photo: AFP) Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire and their supporters took part in a virtual memorial to mark the third anniversary of the disaster on Sunday night. The most […] Click here to view original…
Dangerous cladding must be removed, urge Greens
Photos taken at the #MayMustGo protest at Downing Street on Saturday 17th June 2017.Author: Garry Knight The Green Party has called on the government to remove “deadly cladding” and address its failings after the Grenfell Tower disaster. Yesterday (14 June) marked three years since the Grenfell Tower disaster in […] Click here to view original…
Salford cladding finance approved
Pendleton Together Operating Limited (PTOL) has arranged funding plans to fully complete fire safety works in Pendleton, including replacing the ACM cladding system with a compliant alternative. Government approval has now been given to PTOL’s plans which have been backed by the PFI company’s funders. Salford City Council owns […] Click here to view original…
Ministers warned work to remove cladding could take ‘up to 39 years’
Ministers have been warned that work to remove unsafe cladding from high-rise buildings could take “up to 39 years” to complete at the current pace. Grenfell Tower in west London Work has been undertaken to remove ACM cladding from buildings across the country following the Grenfell disaster three years […] Click here to view original…
Cladding Fire Safety Update – Registration now open for Building Safety Fund: building owners must act quickly to access funding
Registration has now opened for the Building Safety Fund, the £1billion pot of money pledged by the government in the March Budget announcements to fund the remediation of Non-ACM Cladding Systems in residential buildings. This fund is in addition to the separate fund set up to remove ACM cladding […] Click here to view original…
Deals and delays on the Chalcots estate like ‘being in an insane loop’
Cladding being removed from the towers back in 2017 SENIOR Labour councillors have agreed to walk away from a £100million deal for fire safety works on the evacuation-hit Chalcots estate, leaving residents facing another three-year wait for the project to be finished. The Town Hall’s cabinet agreed to cancel […] Click here to view original…
2,000 buildings still covered in dangerous cladding three years on from Grenfell disaster
Grenfell campaigners are calling on the government to commit to a deadline to remove all flammable cladding from homes (Picture: PA) Around 2,000 buildings are still covered with flammable cladding – despite the government pledging to remove it all by this month. The housing, communities and local government committee […] Click here to view original…
Only fraction of £600m pot to fix Grenfell-style cladding spent so far
The government has spent less than a quarter of what it promised to replace dangerous Grenfell-style cladding, leaving 300 highrise buildings still not fixed three years after the disaster. Ministers pledged £400m in May 2018 to strip social housing towers of aluminium composite material (ACM) panels similar to those […] Click here to view original…