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 you may assume cladding ideas are only those featuring unusual or alternative materials, the fact is most self builds, extensions and external makeovers involve house cladding of some kind.

The cladding on Grenfell Tower was used on other buildings hit by fires around the world, the BBC has learned. The exterior cladding, added in 2015, had a polyethylene - or plastic - core instead of ...

The government is conducting a new series of tests to try to establish how worried it ought to be about cladding on tall buildings and their vulnerability to fire. These tests are very important - and ...