Cladding serves both functional and aesthetic purposes, protecting from the elements while enhancing the building’s appearance. When choosing materials, it is important to consider factors such as ...
Although many building products offering lower environmental impacts are combustible, it is still possible to use them in a cladding system by testing the cladding system as a whole, as Tony Baker ...
Authorities may need to ban the cladding used on the outside of Grenfell Tower, experts have said. The cladding – metal panels that were stuck on the outside of the building to help insulate and ...
The fourth in our series of NBS Shortcuts looks at rainscreen cladding. Its modern incarnation was developed in the 1940s, and in the 1950s the UK’s Building Research Station advocated drained and ...
Burning cladding on Grenfell Tower would have released 14 times more heat than a key government test allows, the Victoria Derbyshire show has learned. Energy emitted from the cladding and insulation ...