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The Scottish Government has come under fire for spending just 11 of a special safety fund to carry out repairs - eight years after the ...
The housebuilder swung to a loss largely due to a rise in the cost of cladding fixes as its sales rate dropped.
Ministers have come under fire as life-safety repairs on 'dangerous' cladding have reached a "scandalous" standstill while spending ...
Flames spread rapidly up the 24-storey residential tower block on June 17, trapping people inside, in what was Britain’s worst blaze since World War Two.
Plymouth City Council and Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service were immediately informed. The fire service ordered the closure of the building’s car park, on the ground floor of the tower.
Last December 2024, in direct response to the findings from the Grenfell Tower inquiry, the Government published its ...
As The Irish News has reported, there remain tower blocks here in Belfast with the same sort of inadequate cladding that led Grenfell Tower to its fate. Given what we know, you wonder why this is.
The existing 64,600-square-foot tower block was built of poured-in-place and precast concrete and enveloped in gray fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC) panels. Within, the mechanical systems and ...