The cladding tubes of the fuel rods used in nuclear reactors must remain leak-tight—despite the risk of corrosion from the ...

The new rules, known as PAS9980, grade the fire risk posed by a tower block's cladding system into four categories: high, ...

It took just 90 minutes for fire to race up 20 storeys of the Grenfell Tower in June 2017, killing 72 people. Last month, a cigarette sparked a blaze that quickly jumped five floors of Melbourne's ...

At an apartment block in Melbourne's south-east, Kerry Ould's retirement savings are crumbling around her. Work has still not finished on most Victorian buildings found to contain combustible cladding ...

Since the Grenfell fire, repairs have been required to buildings with unsafe cladding. This created an affordability crisis with many flat-owners facing large bills for renovations. The government has ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Work to make England’s multistorey residential buildings safe from dangerous cladding could cost up to £22.4bn, ...

The funds are aimed at protecting residents of buildings wrapped in flammable materials from bearing the cost of making them safe. But those impacted and some lawmakers say more support is needed. By ...

The China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) informed the IAEA yesterday that a minor fuel cladding failure had occurred at the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant. What are fuel cladding failures, and what do ...

For more than three years, the cladding crisis has been affecting thousands of families. Across the UK, some kids are living in homes that have been classed as unsafe. There are families who are ...