Concealed cavities and voids within walls, floors, ceilings and roofs can provide a ready route for the spread of smoke and flame, bypassing fire-resisting construction, and so building regulations ...

In all climate zones, the various forms of metal cladding—single-skin panels, metal composite materials (MCM) panels, and insulated metal panels (IMPs)—are proving to be reliable, durable elements on ...

Grenfell Tower was wrapped in a cladding system that did not comply with building regulations and was incorrectly installed, creating “multiple catastrophic fire-spread routes”, a report found. Dr ...

With timber frame construction expected to continue growing in popularity, it’s critical that any building made from the material is adequately protected against the spread of fire. Here, cavity ...

Government initiatives to adapt for eco-friendly structures have a favorable effect on the growth of the rainscreen cladding market A rainscreen cladding system is an outside wall feature in which the ...

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