Britain's government urged local officials across the country Sunday to urgently submit samples of tower block cladding after tests found that all samples tested so far have failed fire safety ...

Another cladding fire has struck London, this time in East London’s Dagenham. Early Monday morning, a 7-story residential tower at 22-24 Freshwater Road was engulfed in flames. Construction was ...

Grenfell Tower was covered in flammable materials because of “systematic dishonesty” from those who made and sold cladding and insulation, the final report has concluded. Here is a summary of the main ...

In the early hours of Monday morning, a fire destroyed the Spectrum Building, a seven-storey block in east London containing several floors of residential flats. It was only due to the action of ...

The Building Safety Act has made huge changes to the rights and obligations of landlords. Landlords and developers can be required to remedy fire safety issues and defects going right back to 1992, ...

Fire safety used to sit somewhere near the edge of architectural thinking. It was addressed, documented, approved, and then quietly filed away while design decisions moved on. That approach no longer ...

Joe Wong, who owns a two-bedroom apartment with his wife, said he had been left feeling "hopeless" and is facing high insurance costs while being unable to sell his property. Developer Barratt Redrow, ...

LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings by the government, construction industry and, ...