A pharmaceutical research center in an office park, a new middle school in a growing town, or a performing arts center in a big city. When designing an architectural building facade, the options are ...

From a distance, today’s building innovations in cladding performance, aesthetics, and construction appear unconstrained and quite varied. Material mixing is creating newly expressive façades, and ...

Polymer siding makers continue to innovate, with major suppliers announcing new lines of composite, plank, PVC shake and insulated vinyl siding as well as expanded capacity for a cladding dubbed the ...

Strongwell’s Strongirt® is the ideal continuous insulation (CI) cladding attachment support system. This all-FRP fiberglass pultruded composite uses a custom fire-retardant resin system and unique ...

London, UK, Jan. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- UK-based online building materials retailer Build4Less.co.uk has announced the expansion of its composite cladding and composite decking ranges. According ...

A leading insulation firm has questioned the accuracy of the government’s large-scale cladding tests, carried out to assess the safety of systems for high rises following the Grenfell disaster.

Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe. On ...

Cladding samples from 27 high-rise buildings in 15 local authorities have failed safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster. The Department for Communities and Local Government’s ...

Architects like aluminium-composite cladding because it is cheap, easily fixed to buildings Anywhere, any colour Architects like aluminium-composite cladding because it is cheap, easily fixed to ...

Cladding must be tested further, with insulation added to the process, the government’s fire safety expert panel has advised. The panel, which is chaired by former London fire commissioner Sir Ken ...