Major insulation and cladding manufacturers have engaged in “sinister” attempts to undermine building regulations and have manipulated the testing regime to present dangerous products as safe, the ...

Strongwell’s Strongirt® is the ideal continuous insulation (CI) cladding attachment support system. This all-FRP fiberglass pultruded composite uses a custom fire-retardant resin system and unique ...

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Four years after the tragic fire that killed 72 people, the UK remains in the grip of a spiralling building-safety crisis. What has it been like for the architects involved, and is the profession ...

Italian chemical and development group Acell (Milan, Italy) has already earned kudos in the construction composites industry with its innovative foam-cored sandwich panels for doors (click on “SMC ...

ACCRBS has recently completed a transformation project in Uckfield, where we revitalized a bay window Cladding by removing the old timber cladding and replacing it with modern, energy-efficient ...

Thousands of people living in high-rise blocks covered in dangerous cladding are facing “astronomical” hikes to insurance premiums as official figures show the removal of the flammable material ...