Cladding

“Progress to identify, assess and fix unsafe cladding on Scotland’s medium and high-rise multi-residential buildings will be accelerated”, according to the Scottish Government , which recently published its Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill (Bill). The Bill has been introduced to the Scottish Parliament as part of the 2023/2024 Programme […] Click here to view original…

3min readNewsNewsinformationopinionPODCASTSPONSORED Tribunal orders big landlord to pay £16m toward cladding costs One of the UK’s largest private landlords has been ordered to pay £16 million towards the cost of fixing cladding-related fire safety problems at a group of five residential towers in London. The complicated and long-running case, […] Click here to view original…

Brickability Group PLC (AIM:BRCK) climbed nearly 3% early on Monday after announcing further expansion into the cladding remediation market through the takeover of Topek Southern Ltd. Topek Southern’s takeover and October’s acquisition of Group Topek Holdings Ltd has left the company with “a full-service specialist cladding installation and remediation […] Click here to view original…

A popular frozen yoghurt bar is reminding customers that it is still open as work gets underway on an apartment block. Cladding is currently being removed from Marsden House leading to a section of the road being closed and scaffolding put up. Businesses nearby are calling on people to […] Click here to view original…

The building materials company has long said that its insulation product made up only 5% of the insulation in the tower block, and was used without its recommendation UK Housing Secretary Michael Gove has accused insulation company Kingspan of trying to “wriggle out of their responsibilities” in relation to […] Click here to view original…

Main image A concerning report reveals that more than 2,000 mid- and high-rise buildings, standing at 11 meters and above, remain with unsafe cladding, lacking any remediation work. The latest data, released by the DLUHC, highlights the slow progress in addressing fire safety risks 19 January 2024 Fire Safety […] Click here to view original…

Tom Hunt MP raised the plight of the residents of The Mill during Prime Minister’s Questions (Image: Newsquest) Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that the government will be “looking into” the ongoing cladding scandal at The Mill complex on the Ipswich Waterfront. The situation was raised in Wednesday’s Prime […] Click here to view original…

An MP suggested there are similarities between the unsafe cladding crisis and the Post Office scandal during a select committee session on fire safety. “Don’t you think there are parallels of what we’re seeing with the Post Office scandal?”, Labour MP Ian Byrne asked housing minister Lee Rowley, who […] Click here to view original…

Work to remediate unsafe cladding on Vista Tower in Stevenage has finally begun. (Image: Google Maps) Work to fix problems with unsafe cladding on a tower block in Stevenage has finally begun, four years after the issues were identified following the Grenfell Tower fire. Vista Tower in St George’s […] Click here to view original…

Work to remediate unsafe cladding on Vista Tower in Stevenage has finally begun. (Image: Google Maps) Work to fix problems with unsafe cladding on a tower block in Stevenage has finally begun, four years after the issues were identified following the Grenfell Tower fire. Vista Tower in St George’s […] Click here to view original…