Plans to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding, including target dates for making buildings safe and tougher penalties for refusing to act, have been announced by ministers. Under the plans, ...

Taylor Wimpey's profits have been wiped out by higher-than-expected costs to remove cladding from its buildings in response to the Grenfell fire tragedy. The company made a loss in the first half of ...

Thousands of glass-reinforced concrete panels were installed on concrete-lined tunnels of varying geometries, requiring only two-person crews rather than heavy equipment. T he 100-km, $19-billion ...

Developers who refuse to help end the cladding scandal could be banned from the housing market under tough new laws. Leaseholders living in blocks above 11 metres will also be legally protected from ...

One of the UK's biggest housebuilders today agreed to fix cladding issues on 26 hazardous new build developments, three-and-a-half years after the Grenfell tragedy. Persimmon, the firm which has been ...

Simply sign up to the Property sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Homebuilder Ballymore has agreed to pay £20m towards fixing fire safety issues across its housing developments in ...

Eight years on from the Grenfell disaster, MPs warned the government still doesn’t know how many buildings are impacted by dangerous cladding – with thousands yet to be identified. They said safety ...

Shares in housing developers caught up in the cladding scandal have plunged after Michael Gove gave firms another firm warning to pay up or face a UK trading ban. The housing secretary wrote to the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Apartment owners forced to replace flammable cladding on high-risk buildings across NSW will be able to access interest-free loans as ...

The country’s tower block cladding crisis may take more than a decade and up to £16.6bn to resolve, according to a report from the National Audit Office. The spending watchdog says the government has ...

New government targets to fix dangerous cladding on high-rise buildings in the next five years have been labelled as “extremely disappointing” by campaigners, who say the proposals will only ...