Look at the walls of most modern buildings. Sleek. Smooth. Sometimes glossy, sometimes matte. That’s not regular paint or plaster. Most of the time, it’s aluminium cladding panels. These panels are ...

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 ...

Aluminium cladding sales rise as building market perceives weather tight solution to Leaky Homes. Dave Hopkinson, Director of Design Aluminium, said his company has experienced a significant lift in ...

Fire Standards: AS/NZS 1530.1-1994 - Combustibility Testing For Materials, AS/NZS 1530.3-1999 - Methods Of Fire Testing On Materials. Performance Standards: AS/NZS-1866. - Aluminium Alloy Extrusions, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Following a deadly residential tower fire in London, Australian authorities have been told an audit of high-rise buildings with cladding ...

Authorities believe part of the Adelaide Convention Centre is clad in the worst type of flammable aluminium panels, with no testing done to determine its properties. The SA Government is considering ...

Cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment was changed to a cheaper version, documents obtained by the BBC suggest. Documents show the zinc cladding originally proposed was replaced ...