Showing posts with label Reclad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reclad. Show all posts

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Replacing Grenfell-Style Cladding Could Take Another Five Years


Progress to fix apartment blocks clad with dangerous combustible panelling is so slow it will take another five years to complete at current rates, according to government figures. Across England, tens of thousands of people are still living in 354 high-rise residential buildings that require their wall systems to be stripped off in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, which claimed 72 lives. In January, work began on just one of the affected buildings and over the last two months work is only being completed at the rate of six buildings a month. Read more on the Guardian website.

Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Just Nine ‘Fire-Risk’ Social Housing Blocks Being Reclad

According to new Government statistics mapping the extent of remedial works just one social housing block has been completed six months after the Grenfell disaster. 162 social housing buildings are fitted with combinations of aluminium composite material cladding and insulation judged to have failed the large-scale tests.  Cladding has been removed on 57 of these buildings over 18m in height. Of these, 26 buildings have had all cladding removed. Work has started on nine blocks to install replacement cladding and one building has finished the installation of replacement cladding. Read more on the Construction Enquirer website.