A heavier piece is more likely to have substantial cladding; a lightweight piece has thin cladding.
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Camden Council had ordered noncombustible cladding and only later found out that combustible cladding had been used instead.
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Then the cladding may be affixed to the wall with metal studs, leaving a narrow gap between the cladding and the insulation.
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After it emerged that flammable external cladding may have helped the Grenfell fire to spread, the government ordered a review of cladding on other blocks in England.
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"[Cladding] produces a wind tunnel and also traps any burning material between the rain cladding and the building," fire expert and surveyor Arnold Tarling told The Independent.
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In that case, it appears that the Grenfell Tower cladding may have violated regulations, and the Dubai government has also acknowledged the risk of installing flammable cladding on tall buildings.
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Investigators looking into the London Grenfell Tower disaster think the building's cladding was a factor in the deadly June 14 blaze, and the company that makes the cladding panels is taking a beating.
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More than 300 towers around Britain have similar combustible cladding.
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In particular, the building was enveloped in a combustible cladding.
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The cladding maker, Arconic, also has its headquarters in Pennsylvania.
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And HPL is not the only other cladding causing worry.
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The stainless steel cladding defines the exterior of the building.
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The authorities in Germany evacuated a building with similar cladding.
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One of the engineers suggested cladding the base in steel.
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"My understanding is the cladding in question, this flammable cladding which is banned in Europe and the U.S., is also banned here," Mr. Hammond said in an interview with Andrew Marr of the BBC.
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But the most concerning "improvement" was the installment of exterior cladding.
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The stone cladding is all the way up the building now.
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It emits more smoke and ignites even faster than aluminum cladding.
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The exterior cladding added in 2016 will also be a focus.
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Matt Orlins, spokesman for the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA), tells NPR that the board chose to exempt the cladding because it was going to be difficult to find cladding that passed the test.
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Jonathan Raynes a partner with law firm Steptoe & Johnson said councils or housing associations who paid contractors for cladding that turned out to be non-compliant could sue the contractor for the cost of replacing the cladding.
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Other councils have been wondering what to do about their buildings' cladding.
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The town's grim brick buildings have recently been covered with colorful cladding.
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People are dying—I'd rather have my tax spent on fireproof cladding.
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The paneling, known as cladding, can be made with fire-resistant material.
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"A club like no other", declare giant drapes cladding the stadium. Quite.
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The exterior of each pod is made up of oxidized aluminum cladding.
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Seven-ply cladding is available in very high-end models as well.
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After hauling them home, he'd split the wood into shakes for cladding.
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"This cladding was up to the standard required by government," he said.
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Inspectors began searching for high-rise apartment buildings with Grenfell-style cladding.
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The cladding on the buildings will almost certainly have to be replaced.
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The local authorities said the cladding on Dorney Tower would be removed.
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But why is cladding permitted in the first place if it's so dangerous?
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The risk of ones involving cladding have been known about for three decades.
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He said there was compelling evidence the cladding did not comply with regulations.
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At least 11 buildings in Britain use combustible cladding material similar to that used on Grenfell Tower, officials said on Thursday, and safety checks are being carried out on cladding from at least 600 high-rise buildings across the country.
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A recent refurbishment wrapped the Grenfell Tower in cladding designed to reduce energy emissions.
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Insurers who spoke to Reuters, however, said they were not planning to exclude cladding.
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But it is not the pine cladding of the tower that makes it special.
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The brochure also issued a blunt warning that cladding can be a fire risk.
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Skyscrapers go up in flames because they have flammable cladding yet no automatic sprinklers.
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But nobody wanted to pay to remove the cladding from privately owned high-rises.
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Safety checks were continuing on the cladding on high-rise buildings across the country.
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Harley Facades Limited, which made the cladding, has not responded to requests for comment.
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The new James Hardie exterior cladding mixes board and batten, shingles and lap siding.
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The government is racing to test cladding on high-rise buildings across the country.
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With the architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he designed sculptural cladding for the building's antenna.
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"There are different ways the insurers will deal with cladding - all are justified," he said.
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He only builds white, bony infrastructure that don't use this kind of cladding at all.
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Questions were raised about whether new exterior cladding contributed to the rapid spread of fire.
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The cladding used when the Grenfell Tower was refurbished was the cheaper, more flammable option.
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Slender brick cladding underscores the pavilion's long horizontal spans and extended cantilevers on either end.
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Grenfell's cladding was made in France, its insulation in Britain and the refrigerator in Europe.
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The kitchen has custom Dade County pine cabinets and wood cladding, even on the refrigerator.
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Many buildings across Britain are still covered with cladding similar to that used at Grenfell.
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The material in the exterior cladding consisted of insulation sandwiched between two sheets of aluminum.
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The cladding on the tower, which was added in 2008, failed safety tests this week.
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When the renovations were completed in May 2016, a local official commented on how wonderful the cladding looked: "It is remarkable to see first hand how the cladding has lifted the external appearance of the tower," said Councillor Nicholas Paget-Brown in a press release.
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There are two kinds of cladding: one that is more flammable, and one that is not.
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This time glass and steel are the main media, sometimes accompanied by cladding in garish colours.
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An investigation by the building's management found most of the damage was to the exterior cladding.
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Since the blaze, the government said cladding tested at nearly 200 sites had failed fire tests.
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It notes failings in other emergency services, and says the building's cladding helped the flames spread.
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Residents in other blocks with the same exterior cladding as Grenfell Tower were concerned, he wrote.
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The new cladding is intended to match the original panels as closely as possible, she said.
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We suspect that a timber facade cladding with those minimalist details would have cost the same.
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The heavy stone cladding and crenelations of their fortresslike exteriors would fit right into Gotham City.
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The police said on Friday that the cladding material had failed safety tests conducted by investigators.
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So far, they've found at least seven other buildings that have the same kind of cladding.
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What appear to be wooden columns and support frames are actually steel beams under wood cladding.
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A 2014 fire in Melbourne, Australia, resulted in multiple investigations into the dangers of combustible cladding.
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Buildings lay pancaked by airstrikes, and stripped of their marble cladding and copper wiring by looters.
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Global concern about cladding grew after London's Grenfell Tower fire in June, which killed about 80 people.
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Some 600 buildings are being tested, showing how widely combustible cladding may have been used across Britain.
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Without proof that it had been carried out, the cladding system would not have met building regulations.
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Images by John SondeykerIt might not look particularly groundbreaking, with its full-length windows and timber cladding.
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No animals were on board and no one was injured, but the ark's wooden cladding was damaged.
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When light travels down an optical fiber, it constantly reflects against the strand's inner mirror-lined cladding.
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The cladding was legal when installed, but after the Grenfell Tower disaster, the government ordered its removal.
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At Grenfell, the flammable cladding was combined with flammable interior insulation, adding more fuel to the blaze.
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The messages spotlighted dangerous cladding, the absence of fire doors and the lack of sprinklers inside buildings.
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The cladding had been banned in the U.S. and many European countries, but English buildings allowed it.
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Similar buildings have been tested to see if their cladding, or outer covering, is vulnerable to fire.
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The metal cladding on one of the cars was shorn off, creating a gash several feet long.
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May's office said, officials concluded that seven buildings so far had been shown to contain combustible cladding.
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Arconic sells a flammable polyethylene version of its Reynobond cladding and a more expensive, fire-resistant version.
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Officials have said aluminum cladding with a plastic core contributed to the rapid spread of the blaze.
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Willmott Dixon and Rydon said their cladding work complied with safety regulations, but did not say how.
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The fourth plinth lamassu references another dimension of Iraqi culture and humanity through its date can cladding.
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The BBC, which also cited documents it had obtained, reported that the money saved by using aluminum "cladding in lieu of zinc cladding" was part of a broader package of savings that brought the total cost of the project down to about £8.5 million from about £9.2 million.
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Brian Meacham, an associate professor of fire engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, said that in general, the more expensive zinc cladding may have been less combustible because it has a less flammable insulation — some of it made of mineral wool fiber — than the aluminum composite cladding.
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Reuters contacted the owners of all 65 blocks with cladding of a type that failed the government tests - seven local councils and 10 housing associations - and asked if they were considering legal action against contractors to recover the money spent on cladding, or to cover the cost of replacement.
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A fire-resistant version of the cladding would only have cost an additional £5,000 for the entire building.
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Exterior side panels, known as cladding, were credited with the acceleration of the tower's first fire in 2015.
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And there's plenty of black cladding on bumpers, fenders and sills that you don't see on the sedan.
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Altogether, the government estimates that up to 240 tower blocks have the same sort of cladding as Grenfell.
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Reuters reports that 600 buildings in the UK that use cladding on the exterior are now being inspected.
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Because the cladding specifications often change, each new building has to be tested and costs run around $30,000.
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The cladding was made from a product called Reynobond PE, panels of aluminum with a polyethylene plastic core.
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In Victoria, a statewide audit of more than 2,000 buildings found nearly half of them had combustible cladding.
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Tests on the cladding of Grenfell Tower would be made public in the next 48 hours, she said.
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Exterior cladding that was added during a recent refurbishment might have played a part, local residents have said.
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The thick, five-layer cladding of each pan and stockpot yields excellent performance in quick and even heating.
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At the Bellevue, there seemed to be as many different degrees of scanty cladding as there were women.
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"It looks to me like a cladding fire," he said in an interview, echoing assessments by other experts.
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Hundreds of apartments in other high rises were evacuated Friday after inspectors found safety problems, including similar cladding.
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But the government has not banned other types of cladding that are more fire-resistant, but not fireproof.
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The reforms would also create accreditation for fire safety inspections and make determinations if social housing has cladding.
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As a result, American building codes have effectively banned flammable cladding in high-rises for nearly two decades.
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The government is still unable to say whether the cladding at Grenfell had complied with British building regulations.
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Cladding systems are panels put up on the outside of buildings to improve their aesthetics and energy efficiency.
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By awful irony, the apparently dangerous cladding was often fitted as part of this effort to improve living conditions.
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Short of cladding Frank in shamrock green, it's hard to think of a less subtle means of ethnic signalling.
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Their stone cladding started just above the ground, revealing their concrete core—the brutalists getting the final word in.
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It did not take into account the cladding that would instead spread flames along the exterior of the building.
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Over the years, Tillyer's support has varied from widely spaced, stiff architectural cladding to flexible mesh with small perforations.
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Sub-contractor Harley Facades Ltd said it was not aware of any link between the fire and the cladding.
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Experts say most of Dubai's approximately 250 high-rise buildings use cladding panels with thermoplastic cores, the newspaper said.
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The government says it will spend 400 million pounds ($530 million) stripping the cladding from publicly owned high-rises.
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Australia's state governments are conducting their own wider review of residential and commercial towers that may have unsafe cladding.
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Residents will have to live elsewhere for four to six weeks while external cladding on the buildings is removed.
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"Mike Penning, a member of Parliament and former fire minister, similarly said, "The cladding was clearly spreading the fire.
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And the government's ban on Grenfell-style cladding applies only to buildings above 18 meters, or about six stories.
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After the blaze, it emerged that the cladding was a less expensive and more flammable variety than the alternatives.
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Cladding has been blamed for numerous fires over the years, including several in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
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Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered an investigation into cladding and insulation on high-rise towers across the country.
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Those buildings are being subjected to safety tests and, if they fail, the cladding will have to be replaced.
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The United States and other countries allow only low buildings to use such cladding because of the fire hazard.
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The same contractor installed cladding on both Grenfell Tower and Dorney Tower, although officials said the material was different.
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Thousands of people still live and work in buildings wrapped in the type of cladding that fed the inferno.
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The government did not identify the 11 buildings with combustible cladding, but the London borough of Camden announced on Thursday that the same contractor and cladding supplier involved in the Grenfell Tower renovation had also worked on the refurbishment of another complex, the 717-unit Chalcots Estate in Swiss Cottage, in northwest London.
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But some people are getting ahead of themselves and just ripping off the cladding without applying a non-combustible alternative.
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Elliott has proposed a structure that would place liabilities of Arconic's cladding business in a separate entity, the sources said.
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Cladding for a spacecraft would have to be meters thick to give full protection, and too heavy to be viable.
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Police think the cladding system at Grenfell Tower may have contributed to the rapid spread of last month's fatal fire.
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Metals used in cladding: Copper has slightly better heat conductivity than aluminum, but be aware that copper is more expensive.
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An aluminum cladding with a combustible plastic core is thought to have contributed to the rapid spread of the fire.
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The cladding problem has bedevilled local councils, not least because of a lack of clarity on what should replace it.
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Nevertheless, the notion that the management company installed the aluminum cladding, in part, for cosmetic reasons is more than unsettling.
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The outer curved metal cladding is silver rather than rust-colored, but it is very clearly a cousin of Barclays.
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The solution was to significantly lighten the building, replacing the concrete cladding with glass and lopping off a heavy penthouse.
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The law made it difficult for either residents or the government to hold these building owners liable for the cladding.
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What We Found Ms. Guy's high-rise is covered in a tapestry of flammable cladding, not just the Grenfell type.
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But experts on British fire safety rules say that the material, used as exterior cladding, in fact complied with regulations.
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British police officers said the building's insulation and exterior cladding had failed safety tests conducted by investigators after the fire.
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Several others have begun removing the type of cladding that is thought to have helped turn Grenfell into a fireball.
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On Thursday, there was confusion about the number of tower blocks thought to have hazardous cladding similar to Grenfell Tower's.
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After Grenfell, the DCLG ordered a series BS 2 tests to establish which types of cladding met fire safety rules.
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Engie has been hired by Barnet Homes in north London to replace cladding on three blocks it clad in 2012.
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When researching these cookware sets, you should consider factors that affect performance and price, like the following:Ply or number of layers in cladding: Tri-ply cladding has three layers (such as aluminum sandwiched between two layers of stainless steel) while five-ply has five fused layers (for example, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, aluminum, stainless steel).
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Cladding is a trendy material that is applied to the outside of a building to improve its appearance and energy efficiency.
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Unless local regulators do something about the building's flammable aluminum cladding, however, there's a decent chance the building could burn again.
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Raising the height, adding all-wheel drive and dressing it in Fjallraven-like cladding gave their wagons the likability of s'mores.
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Rydon Group, the contractor that oversaw the refurbishment when the new cladding was added, said it had complied with all regulations.
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The cladding, a product called Reynobond PE made by U.S. firm Arconic, was made out of aluminum with a polyethylene core.
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Harley said last week it was "not aware of any link between the fire and the exterior cladding to the tower".
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The outside cladding engulfed in June 14's deadly blaze has since been shown to fail all safety tests, police said.
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The speed at which the fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower raised questions about the external cladding on the block.
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An insulation maker, Rockwool, has estimated 340 recently built high-rise complexes use flammable cladding different from the kind on Grenfell.
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Writing strict new rules, he said, would have been an admission the old ones had allowed Grenfell-style cladding to proliferate.
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As you near it, the flat expanse of the facade begins to differentiate itself into cladding panels, textured with pebbled aggregate.
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In a statement, Arconic said it would stop selling the cladding panels, known as Reynobond PE, for use in high-rises.
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David King, a building engineer in Maidstone, England, said the cladding might have helped the blaze leap from floor to floor.
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In May 2016, the building underwent a $12.8 million renovation, including the cladding, double-glazed windows and a communal heating system.
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He said the government would release an extra 600 million pounds ($772 million) to go toward the removal of risky cladding.
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The minister also said the government would introduce legislation to prosecute those found guilty of supplying, installing or selling unsafe cladding.
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Makers of cladding promoted it as both aesthetically striking and energy-efficient, because the aluminum surface reflects back heat and light.
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In 2014, the Fire Protection Research Foundation, an organization in the United States, counted 20 major high-rise fires involving cladding.
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Barnet said it was not seeking any money from its contractor, Engie, over the original cladding but declined to say why.
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Insurers and their clients will now be looking more closely at cladding specifically, said Peter Wallace, construction underwriter at Castel Underwriting Agencies.
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Proximity reveals, too, that the shells are not shaped from smooth panels of cladding, but covered in more than 221m ceramic tiles.
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Ultra-modern, flamboyant designs often involved heavy use of cladding - layers fixed to the outside of buildings for decoration, insulation or protection.
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Detective Superintendent Fiona McCormack said insulation on the building, and the cladding panels, had failed safety tests carried out after the disaster.
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IT'S NOT SURPRISING that Carpenter brings the high-concept tactility of a sculptor to what many others see as mere structural cladding.
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Others complain about the dismal architectural style of new-build student accommodation, which tends to consist of boxy structures with luminous cladding.
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The armchair marketing guy in me believes Honda's truck would fly off the lot with some rugged cladding and macho trim inside.
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Pros: Five-ply cladding at a decent price, solid quality and performance, glass lids for checking on cooking, full lifetime warrantyCons: Heavy
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What role did exterior cladding, installed as part of a renovation completed last year, play in the rapid spread of the flames?
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"They came and knocked on the door and told us that the building had the same cladding as Grenfell," Ms. Kiala said.
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Experts pointed to the insulated aluminum cladding that was installed to the building's exterior as part of the renovation as potentially problematic.
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One hotel chain, Premier Inn, told the BBC that it was "extremely concerned" about cladding at buildings in Maidenhead, Brentford and Tottenham.
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They were unaware that flames were already climbing the exterior cladding of the building, which many experts have said was not fireproof.
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Cladding like that on Grenfell has been widely used on ageing concrete tower blocks to improve their appearance and reduce heat loss.
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The inexpensive cladding has been linked to fires elsewhere in the world, including France, Australia, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.
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But the chief suspect is external cladding made from blocks of flammable plastic encased in sheets of aluminium that was added in 2014.
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A recent refurbishment of Grenfell Tower wrapped it in a cladding which is banned on tall buildings in Germany and the United States.
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The fire, thought to have started when a fridge exploded in a fourth-floor flat, spread quickly as the building's cladding caught fire.
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Panicked landlords have begun removing the cladding from their own buildings, but according to experts, this is just making the situation more dangerous.
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Insurers have also commissioned the Fire Protection Association, Britain's national fire safety organization, to examine issues including cladding and sprinklers in residential buildings.
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Arconic provided aluminum and polyethylene cladding (metal exterior panels) that investigators believe contributed to the fire at the West London residential high-rise.
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Salford council stripped the aluminium cladding from nine of its towers on the Pendleton Estate, but this merely left exposed the insulation underneath.
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In some of those cases, experts said the flames may have been encouraged to spread by exterior cladding, used for decoration or insulation.
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An investigation blamed a discarded cigarette butt that fell on a pile of waste; the blaze swept through cladding panels on the tower.
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Subaru's Impreza 5-Door is an excellent value at $20,355, and its fraternal twin, the Crosstrek ($23,710), adds ground clearance and protective cladding.
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"The estimate provided to us by councils is that there are approximately 600 high-rise buildings with similar cladding," May's spokeswoman told reporters.
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The United States and other jurisdictions that require real-world testing banned the use of such cladding around high-rise buildings years earlier.
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And the Grenfell-style cladding covered by the government fund is hardly the only fire propellant lining the sides of English high-rises.
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The blaze ignited the building's exterior cladding, shot up the side of the tower and transformed the 24-story structure into an inferno.
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He said hospitals and schools would also be tested to ensure they had not been built with cladding that could easily catch fire.
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It did so fully aware of the risk of a catastrophic fire, since such cladding had resulted in many fires and many warnings.
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The Chinese, in turn, re-export some Russian wood as furniture, doors, flooring, cladding and other finished goods for sale around the world.
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This technological soup gives the metallic frame a humanoid cladding, making it more reassuringly and pleasantly familiar, from bosomy top to round bottom.
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In 1964, the terminal acquired a Brutalist concrete cladding that made it usable as a Cold War fallout shelter, and its glamour faded.
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Several States in the US Allow the Same Cladding That Turned Grenfell Tower Into a Time BombThe UK is not happy that its government allowed a 24-story public housing building to be built…Read more ReadAccording to the Guardian, an estimated 600 tall buildings in the UK utilize the hazardous cladding that helped fuel the fire at Grenfell Tower.
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Some residents said they were not woken by smoke alarms, that there were no sprinklers and that recently installed cladding had seemed particularly flammable.
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In some of those cases, experts said the flames may have been encouraged to spread by flammable exterior cladding, used for decoration or insulation.
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It's more impressive without the obfuscating cladding, however, if perhaps a bit more sober and sensible looking than its competition from Tesla, for instance.
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British media and angry local residents have raised a series of issues including whether the cladding used on the building helped the blaze spread.
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It broke out of that apartment, ignited the cladding around the outside of the building, and reached the 23rd floor within half an hour.
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However, the advice has been temporarily suspended for about 100 buildings in London that have similar cladding to the one used on Grenfell Tower.
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The Department for Communities said in a statement that the cladding from 181 high-rise buildings in 51 local authority areas had failed tests.
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"The government will consult on banning the use of combustible materials and cladding systems on high-rise residential buildings," minister James Brokenshire told parliament.
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Driven Adding ground clearance, all-wheel drive and rugged Ranger Rick cladding to a station wagon is a well-known path for automotive profit.
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After failing to persuade building owners to pay for the cladding repairs themselves, the government this month allocated about $254 million for the work.
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The government says tests on different kinds of dangerous cladding like HPL began last month, though experts have raised concerns about the tests' reliability.
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The London tower's cladding, produced by the American manufacturing giant Arconic, propelled what became the deadliest fire in Britain in more than 215 years.
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The council said in a statement that the cladding material would be removed from the five high rises, located on the Chalcots housing estate.
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The exterior cladding on the tower — sheets of aluminum composite material, encasing a flammable polyethylene insulation — has been blamed for accelerating the fire's spread.
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The weird pink stone cladding came off first — it had to be hand-chipped — after which he sandblasted the concrete twice for good measure.
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The Cross Country starts with the handsome V903, adds rugged body cladding and exterior trim, and lifts the ride height by some 290 inches.
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Survivors of the fire and Labour members of Parliament condemned the report, and demanded a ban on the cladding used on Grenfell Tower, above.
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That cladding has long been prohibited in the United States for buildings above a certain height, and in some places it is banned entirely.
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When the refrigerator on the fourth floor burst into flames, the fire ignited the flammable cladding and shot up the side of the building.
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The first well-known use of aluminum cladding on a high-rise was on the Alcoa Building, in Pittsburgh, erected as the manufacturer's headquarters.
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No aluminum cladding made with pure polyethylene — the type used at Grenfell Tower — has ever passed the test, experts in the United States say.
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To add to the worries, landlords of privately owned homes have been only encouraged, not compelled, to send in samples of cladding for testing.
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The DCLG announced a second phase of testing of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding panels after samples from over 250 buildings failed initial tests.
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Rather than hide the unusual support system, Brookfield will highlight it with a cladding of travertine quarried about 15 miles east of Siena, Italy.
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In particular, the building was enveloped in a combustible cladding which ignited and the flames raced to the top of the building in minutes.
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The company sold the paneling that was used on the building, but it has since said it will no longer sell the cladding panels.
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It said that, of around 225 social housing towers in England that had cladding, 265 had systems of a type that failed the tests.
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The three companies that were rehired to replace the cladding on 29 of the towers had all originally fitted aluminum panels with polyethylene cores.
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Engie has been hired to remove panels from 12 blocks it clad in 2012 and 2016, and install new cladding on three of them.
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Although investigators have not confirmed what kind of cladding was used on Grenfell Tower, the Guardian reports that the cheaper, more flammable kind was used.
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Concrete mezzanines, rough timber cladding and new quarry tiles are being installed in super-shed makeovers; some avant-garde farmers are planning brutalist barn conversions.
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The type of cladding on Grenfell is not allowed on high-rises in many countries, including the United States, specifically because of the fire danger.
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A public inquiry into the blaze is underway following initial reports that it spread throughout the residential tower because of flammable cladding used as insulation.
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Hounslow manages 35 high-rise properties; it has removed the cladding on one block and will carry out other work, such as replacing fire doors.
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So far, there are 16 blocks in London where cladding has been removed and the advice in those has reverted to the stay put policy.
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A public inquiry into the blaze is underway following initial reports it quickly spread throughout the residential tower because of flammable cladding used as insulation.
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"As we have seen from the number of buildings where the cladding has failed the combustibility test..., this is a much wider issue," she said.
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In the case of the ATS and CTS, the V versions are generally beefier than the regular cars, with additional side skirts and aerodynamic cladding.
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As Museum Tower soared to 42 stories, its glass cladding acted as a huge reflector, sending the sun's intensified rays down into the sculpture center.
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This triple-ply cladding provides stability, even distribution of heat in the base and along the sides from bottom to rim, and overall commendable performance.
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"As we have seen from the number of buildings where the cladding has failed the combustibility test ... this is a much wider issue," May said.
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They had decided against cladding their new house in Sea Ranch's ubiquitous wood, choosing a cement fiberboard that is both fire-resistant and low maintenance.
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Low-cost flammable cladding installed on the outside of Grenfell Tower helped the fire race up the side of the building at an unimaginable speed.
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The cladding was made from a product called Reynobond PE, panels of aluminum with a polyethylene plastic core that the lawsuit describes as highly flammable.
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The cladding was banned in the United States and many European countries because if a fire breaks out, it allows the flames to spread quickly.
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The government did soon direct 400 million pounds, or $523 million, to help the local authorities remove the cladding from approximately 150 public housing blocks.
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Katie Peate lives in a building in Manchester covered in timber cladding and an insulation system that residents were told was more combustible than Grenfell's.
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"It looks to me — and certainly a lot of people are saying the same thing — it looks to me like a cladding fire," he said.
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The copper cladding that distinguishes the towers does not start at ground level, but 20 feet above the base, so it will never be submerged.
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Adjaye and his partner, Philip Freelon, call this outer cladding a "corona," a reference to the beaded crowns characteristic of Yoruba art, from West Africa.
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The cladding is typically paired with a much thicker layer of foam insulation against the building's exterior wall, as was the case at Grenfell Tower.
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A Reuters review published last week found that 60 high-rise buildings had been fitted with the same kind of cladding as Grenfell since 2006.
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It also has a contract to remove cladding from nine blocks in Salford, north England, owned by the local council that it clad around 2016.
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There may not have been sprinkler systems and fire-resistant cladding in the 13th century, but they may be necessary to ensure Notre Dame survives.
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"The mural was under cladding for [29] years and it was a very large undertaking requiring a great deal of lobbying and red tape from many people to get the cladding to come off so that the very beginning phase of understanding what conservation work might be best appropriate considering its current conditions could get started," a spokesperson for the Haring Foundation told Hyperallergic.
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Positioned between renderings, the permeable material's function as a layer that is used interchangeably as internal lining and external cladding manifests in literal — though alternative — terms.
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Several British ministers suggested over the weekend that the cladding used on Grenfell Tower was prohibited, but they were wrong, according to the New York Times.
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However, the company's promotional brochures claim that FirstEnergy stadium—along with an Alaskan high school and a Baltimore luxury hotel—were constructed with the same cladding.
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The U.K. government has called for tests at dozens of other area high-rises that used cladding and insulation similar to those installed at Grenfell Tower.
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But at Grenfell the fire spread from the outside in, leaping up the sides of the building on the cladding and into apartments through the windows.
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Most states don't allow that particularly dangerous type of cladding on buildings that are taller than 40 feet because they follow the International Building Code (IBC).
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It has had more success by taking some models, boosting their height, adding SUV-style cladding and dubbing them with names like the V90 Cross Country.
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The UAE revised its building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding on all new buildings over 15 meters (50 feet) tall be fire-resistant.
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"Given recent concerns around non-compliant cladding we have commenced some additional processes," David Lording, head of media relations at Westpac, said in an emailed statement.
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Omnis Exteriors, which cut the Arconic tiles to shape and supplied them to the cladding contractor, said it was not responsible for the choice of panel.
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She said it would examine all aspects of the cladding: the aluminum tiles, the insulation behind it, how it was fitted to building and the installation.
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The UAE revised its building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding on all new buildings over 15 metres (50 feet) tall be fire-resistant.
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The series of fires in tall buildings in the UAE has revived questions about the safety of cladding materials used in the Gulf region and beyond.
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The review's author, engineer Judith Hackitt, said a ban would not be sufficient because existing regulations already meant that unsafe cladding should not have been used.
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"In its bilious cladding, chaotic form, adhesive balconies and frenzied facades, it exhibits the absolute worst in shambolic architectural design and cheap visual gimmickry," he continues.
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It's packed full of opulent touches — such as 5,000-year-old wood cladding on the dash — which may help explain the Bacalar's $2 million asking price.
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To create its innovative cladding, the 21-year-old Murman photographed the conifers, then had the images transposed in 2300:250 scale onto a vinyl scrim.
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Some Citiscape residents have said the cost of replacing the cladding is so high that they might be unable to afford to stay in their homes.
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The British government has since banned Grenfell-style cladding on high-rises, though tens of thousands of people still live in buildings wrapped in the material.
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The government did move fairly quickly to strip the dangerous cladding from public housing towers, but people in approximately 8,400 public apartments await a full repair.
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The police said on Friday that the cladding material had failed safety tests conducted by investigators following the Grenfell disaster, London's worst building fire in decades.
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Investigators have found 75 buildings across Britain that have similar cladding, and hundreds of apartments were evacuated on Friday amid fears they faced similar fire risks.
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On top of the wood, now encased in metal cladding that the artist referred to as its "steel suit," the ceramic pieces form an awkward embrace.
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Keen was unable to say if any of the cladding was the same as that made by Arconic Inc that was used on the Grenfell Tower.
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You should know that the second-generation Crosstrek, essentially the Impreza hatchback with rugged body cladding and additional ground clearance, will be heading into showrooms soon.
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The aluminum cladding panels "were not to the standard that we had commissioned," the borough said in a statement, adding that it was considering legal action.
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Amal Salah, 45, a care worker who lives in the nearby Dorney tower with her husband and four children, said that residents frequently discussed the cladding.
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"You can tell immediately it's the cladding," said Glenn Corbett, an associate professor of fire science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
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Since 22, building regulations have required materials used in cladding on high-rise buildings to be able to pass the "BS 26 test" which measures combustibility.
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Other countries, including Germany and America, had banned the flammable cladding used on Grenfell; Britain's building regulations say it should only be used on low-rise buildings.
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The construction technique has been linked to three separate tower fires in Dubai, and the government has since restricted the use of aluminum cladding on new construction.
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The specific panels, known as "cladding," are made of a composite material called Reynobond PE and are used to improve energy efficiency and make buildings, well, shinier.
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The insulation between the cladding and the concrete structure was also combustible, and the thin space between them acted like a chimney, funneling heat and flames upward.
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Lawsuits have also been filed in the United States against makers of such cladding, Arconic Inc and Celotex Corp, a U.S. subsidiary of French multinational Saint-Gobain.
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The fire is suspected to have been stoked by the building's flammable exterior cladding, which was used to cut costs during a recent refurbishment of the building.
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Cladding panels are often added to the exterior of buildings to insulate them and, particularly in the case of ageing tower blocks, to improve their external appearance.
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It said in a statement on its website last month it was not aware of any link between the fire and the exterior cladding to the tower.
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To the rear of the building, the cladding fans outward, sheathing a much larger ground-floor space, which contains the main theater of the Pacific Film Archive.
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The Royal Institute of British Architects expressed concerns that a post-Grenfell government review of building regulations will stop short of banning flammable cladding on residential towers.
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"The government's primary objective has always been to avoid the blame for Grenfell," said Jonathan Evans, the chief executive of Ash and Lacy, a cladding systems maker.
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The cladding used has since failed safety checks and prompted a review of the materials used on British buildings ranging from hospitals to hotels to apartment blocks.
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British regulations may seek to limit the spread of the flames by requiring builders to divide potentially flammable cladding with fireproof barriers at horizontal or vertical intervals.
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And the air gap between the cladding and the insulation could act as a chimney, intensifying the fire and sucking flames up the side of a building.
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Another subcontractor, Omnis Exteriors, said on Friday that it had not been told that the flammable Reynobond cladding was going to be combined with flammable interior insulation.
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That could cost up to 3.5 million pounds ($4.6 million) over two years including 1.5 million pounds in lost revenue and 2 million to replace the cladding.
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With the fence cladding just being completed and the houses of reclaimed wood still finding their foundations, the Music Box Village is indeed still a bit rough.
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The exterior of the house is a mix of brick and what appears to be white wood cladding, accented by metal lanterns, black-frame windows and arched doorways.
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In an effort to blend in with the SUV scene it comes black cladding around the lower body and wheel wells to toughen up its otherwise sleek lines.
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With a little extra outer cladding and some internal shock resistance systems, however, he was able to create a watch that could truly stand up to heavy wear.
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Its Reynobond PE panels were used in the cladding of the London's Grenfell Tower apartment complex, where more than 70 people were killed last year in a blaze.
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The explosion in Copenhagen shattered glass doors and windows and scorched metal cladding at the main entrance of the building in Nordhavn, just north of the city centre.
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The explosion in Copenhagen shattered glass doors and windows and scorched metal cladding at the main entrance of the building in Nordhavn, just north of the city center.
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To insulate large buildings while keeping overall weight down, many supertalls have what's called a thermo-plastic core, which is essentially layers of polyurethane sandwiched between aluminum cladding.
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On Friday, 800 households were ordered at short notice to evacuate five apartment towers in the London district of Camden while external cladding on the buildings is removed.
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Some experts have asked whether cladding - which is used widely on the towers which crowd the Dubai skyline - may in some cases make them more vulnerable to fire.
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Earlier May announced that cladding used on some buildings had been found to be combustible with her local government minister saying eleven had so far tested as combustible.
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The council said it was informing the contractor which installed the cladding, made up of aluminum panels with a polyethylene core, that it was taking urgent legal advice.
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Even with that metal cladding, the entire reader weighs just 4.6 ounces, the majority of which is in the grip side, making it, ultimately, quite comfortable to hold.
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Saudi Aramco signs a $1 billion deal with Tubacex Group which aims to invest in CRA pipe threading and weld overlay, and cladding manufacturing facilities in the Kingdom.
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If you want the performance of five-ply cladding without paying top dollar for a high-end set, try the Calphalon Signature Stainless Steel 10-Piece Cookware Set.
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The bottom wings near the base were connected to the body with cladding that increases aerodynamics – while the top fins were attached at only a couple of points.
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"If the cladding cannot resist the spread of flame across the surface, then it will vertically envelop the building," Mr. Evans warned, in testimony that now seems prophetic.
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The building industry's own guidance document said cladding should be able to pass the so-called BS 8414 combustibilty test, which is also stipulated in the building regulations.
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The announcement came one year after a major fire broke out at London's Grenfell Tower apartment complex, where the company's Reynobond PE panels were used in the cladding.
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Oxford council said it had not sought money from Willmott Dixon over the original cladding and would only consider taking legal advice after the independent review was completed.
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The translation of architecture into clothing designs further engages with the ideas at play in Hörnschemeyer's work, which recasts structural elements as material and internal structure as outer cladding.
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Excluding such cladding from policies was one option for insurers, along with other options such as raising premiums, John Ludlow, chief executive of UK insurance buyers' group Airmic said.
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The public inquiry has established that a flammable cladding system fitted to external walls during a recent refurbishment was the key factor in the unstoppable spread of the fire.
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According to his research, Minnesota, Indiana and Massachusetts, as well as the District of Columbia have all elected to exempt the cladding from testing that's required under the IBC.
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Sixty high-rise buildings have failed tests to gauge whether their cladding materials are combustible, and there have been complaints in the media that checks have moved too slowly.
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A report by fire safety engineer Barbara Lane listed multiple safety failings, including the flammable aluminum-and polyethylene cladding installed on the tower&aposs facade during a recent renovation.
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Workers there rotate and tilt the newly designed LEAP engines on special jogs, to fit first their cladding of wires and pipes and then their nacelles or engine housings.
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The bridge's architects concealed the structure's high-tech engineering by cladding the steel infrastructure in Cornish granite and Portland stone to match its namesake, the nearby Tower of London.
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The council says the combustible cladding "significantly differs" from that on Grenfell Tower, the high-rise across town where at least 79 people died in a blaze June 14.
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Smoke was still wafting out of the shell of the Grenfell Tower on Thursday, and a Reuters cameraman saw a big piece of building cladding fall from the building.
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The government promised on Wednesday to spend 400 million pounds ($540 million) on replacing unsafe cladding on public high-rise blocks, lessening the burden on cash-strapped local authorities.
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You'll probably recognize the neighborhood just to the south of Grenfell Tower from the 90s Hugh Grant movie of the same name:Image: Google MapsInstalling aluminum cladding isn't inherently bad.
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The Italian-made Lagostina Martellata Hammered Copper 10-Piece Cookware Set is constructed of triple-metal cladding that heats up quickly and evenly while adding beauty to your kitchen.
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The deadly blaze two years ago spurred national outrage over what many said were the failings of the building's quasi-governmental owner in ensuring that it had fireproof cladding.
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"You can't imagine when the first pieces of cladding came off, and you see the first stripes of Haring's painting appear," she said of the reveal on June 18.
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Its aluminum cladding, added in a 2012 refurbishment, proved so flammable that it turned the tower into a "death trap," a lawyer representing the survivors told the public inquiry.
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Mr. Meng was charged by the National Supervisory Commission, an anticorruption body created in March to intensify the country's campaign against graft and to give it firmer legal cladding.
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But under the regulatory system in force in Britain, builders and property owners faced less strict restrictions and may have wrapped hundreds of buildings in the potentially risky cladding.
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The central government has asked local authorities around the country to identify buildings that use the cladding, which consists of sheets of aluminum composite material around a lightweight core.
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Hours earlier, Robert Black, the head of the management company that ran the 24-story building and oversaw a renovation that included the installation of flammable cladding, also resigned.
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"This is most definitely not just a question of the specification of cladding systems," Ms. Hackitt reports, "but of an industry that has not reflected and learned for itself."
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The fire became a political crisis and a symbol of inequality in a wealthy neighborhood after cladding used on the outside of the building was found to be flammable.
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Refrigerators in most apartments appear to have been positioned against an exterior wall, next to a window and just a few inches from the cladding installed in the renovation.
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So far, samples from 34 tower blocks in 15 areas in England have shown that the cladding, or aluminum facade, wrapped around the buildings is unsafe, the government said.
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Two revelations have already added to the urgency of the debate: the cladding used in the building is banned in the United States for buildings taller than forty feet tall.
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One major focus of criticism has been directed at authorities' decision to use a highly flammable cladding on the facade of the building in an effort to "beautify" the neighborhood.
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That's depressing demand for copper and other base metals such as aluminum, which is a popular material in China both for cladding and internal fixtures such as doors and windows.
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She said officials had been concerned about this particular building since 2010, but decided to act now after seeing how fire could spread rapidly via a flammable cladding or facade.
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The fire triggered a regulatory response across the globe as authorities scrambled to discover how many buildings used such cladding and then figure out who should pay for its removal.
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Once the fire broke out of its point of origin, a fourth-floor apartment, it ignited the cladding and the flames raced to the top of the building in minutes.
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U.S. firm Arconic Inc said it was stopping global sales of its Reynobond PE cladding, which was used in Grenfell Tower, for use in high-rise buildings following the fire.
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Above us, polished copper-colored cladding, on the undersides of staircases and landings, offered distorted reflections of people and machines out of our direct view, as in a Hyatt atrium.
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U.S. firm Arconic Inc said it was stopping global sales of its Reynobond PE cladding, which was used in Grenfell Tower, for use in high-rise buildings after the fire.
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That's depressing demand for copper and other base metals such as aluminium, which is a popular material in China both for cladding and internal fixtures such as doors and windows.
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Phase 2 of the inquiry, expected to last about two years, will seek to establish how, why and by whom the decision to install the flammable cladding system was made.
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Johnson said work to remove dangerous cladding from high-rise blocks had been completed or was scheduled in all government-owned buildings but progress was slower in the private sector.
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That kind of cladding was legal in Britain, but tests conducted after the blaze showed that it failed fire safety standards, raising questions about how it had ever been allowed.
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The question of whether the cladding complied with national regulations — and whether those regulations were too lax — is a central part of the investigation into the horrific blaze last week.
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Downing Street has said it is investigating whether defective cladding has been used on schools and hospitals, while adding that these tend to be shorter buildings and so less dangerous.
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The cladding is not allowed in high-rise buildings in various countries, including the United States, and investigations after the fire concluded that it did not meet British safety standards.
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The British government, which ordered a series of tests to establish which types of cladding panels met fire safety rules, said those on the London tower block did not comply.
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The UAE revised its building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding on all new buildings over 15 metres (50 feet) tall be fire-resistant, but older buildings are exempt.
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Camden council, in north London, was one of the first to try to move residents out of towers with the flammable aluminium-composite cladding, in the days after the Grenfell fire.
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The UAE revised its building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding on all new buildings over 15 meters (50 feet) tall be fire-resistant; but older buildings are exempt.
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Police said the fire started in a fridge freezer made by a subsidiary of U.S. company Whirlpool and have been investigating whether the tower's cladding, made by U.S. firm Arconic Inc.
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The tower blocks are among 600 buildings across the country being tested for potentially dangerous cladding, or siding, in light of the blaze that left the apartment block a charred shell.
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The UAE revised its building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding on all new buildings over 15 meters (50 feet) tall be fire-resistant, but older buildings are exempt.
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"(We) should of course be careful on speculating what caused this fire, but as a precaution the government has arranged to test cladding on all relevant tower blocks," May told parliament.
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But her decision not to advise a ban on combustible cladding or insulation for high-rise buildings drew immediate condemnation from a wide range of critics including the opposition Labour Party.
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For the exterior, which was painted a pinkish hue when they bought the house, they first tried to mimic the natural color of the original redwood cladding before realizing their error.
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What We Found But by April of this year, fewer than 2300 of the buildings ordered fixed had been taken care of, with 210 of them still bearing flammable aluminum cladding.
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Addressing the House of Commons, Sajid Javid, the minister for communities and local government, said all 75 towers in Britain whose cladding had so far been tested for combustibility had failed.
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Grenfell Tower underwent a $10.9 million refurbishment in 2016, and questions are being raised about the type of cladding that was used on the outside of the building during the renovation.
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In Britain, the authorities have found that 95 buildings have cladding similar to what was used on Grenfell Tower, the high-rise that caught fire this month, killing at least 79.
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Such cladding, which often consists of aluminum sheets sandwiched over some kind of insulation, has been seen as a factor in past blazes, including three major high-rise fires in Dubai.
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About 60 of the building's floors were damaged in the 2015 fire, and investigators concluded that the exterior cladding, made of aluminum panels with combustible plastic cores, had accelerated the flames.
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The resignations occurred as new evidence emerged that the management company, which started the renovation in 2014, had chosen a less fire-resistant form of cladding to save nearly 19743,000 pounds.
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As a result, her 159-page report did not address specific changes people have called for, like a cladding ban or requiring sprinklers and multiple fire stairs in high-rise buildings.
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After the tests last year, the government concluded that 228 high-rise buildings around the country had unsafe cladding and ordered it removed, but property owners balked at the cost. Mrs.
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The facade, installed last year at Grenfell Tower, in panels known as cladding and sold as Reynobond PE, consisted of two sheets of aluminum that sandwich a combustible core of polyethylene.
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But as early as 223, after a fire in Irvine, Scotland, British fire safety engineers warned Parliament that the advent of flammable cladding had opened a dangerous loophole in the regulations.
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The next phase of the inquiry is expected to focus on the underlying cause of the disaster: flammable exterior cladding and insulation that allowed the fire to engulf the tower quickly.
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A Reuters review identified 22012 other towers with cladding of a type that was approved by local building inspectors, but which government tests found did not comply with the statutory regulations.
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Layers of the wall CAVITY OLD WALL CLADDING PANELS WITH PLASTIC CORE Exterior Interior A chimney effect INSULATION OLD WALL CAVITY, ABOUT 2000 INCHES AIR Layers of the wall A chimney effect INSULATION CAVITY, ABOUT 2254 INCHES OLD WALL CAVITY CLADDING PANELS WITH PLASTIC CORE OLD WALL Exterior Interior INSULATION AIR CROSS SECTION OF THE WALL Layers of the wall A chimney effect INSULATION OLD WALL CAVITY, ABOUT 2340 INCHES CAVITY OLD WALL CLADDING PANELS WITH PLASTIC CORE Interior Exterior INSULATION AIR CROSS SECTION OF THE WALL CAVITY, ABOUT 280 INCHES By Mika Gröndahl When Grenfell caught fire after a refrigerator exploded on a lower floor, the plastic layer ignited and flames bolted up the side of the building, dooming many of the residents.
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The connection between the cladding and the neighborhood's gentrification was not missed by the Grenfell Action Group, a group of Grenfell Tower residents that records community demands and complaints, which wrote about it in a blog post published days after the fire: The cladding on Grenfell Tower was intended to pimp it up so that it wouldn't spoil the image of creeping gentrification that the Council are intent on creating, here and throughout the rest of North Kensington.
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Mr. Woollard opened a discreetly concealed wine cellar with room for 110 dozen bottles and then walked over to touch the zinc cladding that surrounds the fireplace, revealing a set of cabinets.
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Matt Wrack, the chief of Britain's main firefighters' union, said in a Twitter post on Tuesday that "firefighters did not put flammable cladding on Grenfell Tower," but risked their lives in it.
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The inquiry has heard that Grenfell Tower had been enveloped in a combustible cladding during a recent refurbishment, and that this was a major factor in the rapid spread of the fire.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous state Victoria pledged on Tuesday to spend A$600 million ($422 million) replacing flammable building cladding in the wake of London's fatal 2017 Grenfell Tower blaze.
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In some of those cases, experts said the speed at which the fires spread may have been due to the use of flammable cladding on the buildings' exteriors for decoration or insulation.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A fire at a hospital in Istanbul on Thursday rapidly engulfed the building's exterior cladding, but officials said it had not spread inside and there were no reports of casualties.
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Local residents say there had been repeated warnings about the safety of the building, which recently underwent an 8.7 million pound ($11.1 million) exterior refurbishment, which included new external cladding and windows.
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The unit had supplied the Reynobond PE panels used in the cladding of the Grenfell Tower apartment complex in London, England, where more than 70 people were killed in a 2017 blaze.
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A key issue in assessing whether the government has fulfilled this duty was whether building regulations banned the combustible cladding in high-rise blocks and whether those regulations were enforced, it said.
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In London, we found that thousands of people are still living in firetraps because the government has been slow to remove the flammable cladding that caused Grenfell to burn like a torch.
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The flames raced in minutes up the sides of the 24-story building, and in its aftermath similarly flammable exterior cladding was found and removed from many other high-rises around Britain.
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Some clauses in the regulatory guidance had appeared to prohibit the use of exteriors as potentially combustible as the cladding used on Grenfell Tower, which contained flammable insulation between sheets of aluminum.
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"Councils who can't tell if cladding is safe from the paper trail or just by looking at the building are sending them out for testing, and people are being cautious," she said.
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All have exterior cladding and insulation similar to that used on Grenfell Tower, a London high rise where at least 279 people are known to have died in a fire last week.
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Flames then rapidly engulfed the tower, mainly because it had been covered during a recent refurbishment with cladding made out of flammable aluminum composite material which acted as a source of fuel.
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Near the top, where the building steps back from the street, the cladding changes to cast stone, and a number of units have private terraces with gardens designed by Gunn Landscape Architecture.
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Exterior cladding is thought to have contributed to the rapid spread of the fire, which consumed the 24-story Grenfell Tower in West London in just one hour, early on June 14.
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Though retrofitted buildings may be held to different standards, new buildings are inspected upon completion to make sure that cladding was installed properly and that it matches the material that was tested.
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Builders harvested more than 5,000 oak trees across 52 acres to build the beams, trusses, and reinforcements for the stone structure and to hold up the roof's 200-metric-ton lead cladding.
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The fire at Grenfell Tower was not the fault of European Union regulation: other countries ban the exterior cladding that is thought to have spread it, as Britain claims to for tall buildings.
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Even though the material has been banned on tall buildings in the United States and many other countries, the British government still allows the use of cladding on tall buildings, like Grenfell Tower.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Insurers are considering raising premiums for tall buildings in Britain with flammable cladding panels and no sprinklers or even excluding related risks following the Grenfell fire in London earlier this year.
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That reactor and Leibstadt, the largest Swiss atomic power station, have been offline for months following maintenance issues, including the discovery of discoloration in eight cladding tubes used to encase Leibstadt's fuel rods.
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Next steps: Cundy said authorities will continue to investigate whether the building's new exterior cladding was in violation of U.K. building regulations, as the paneling may be responsible for quickly spreading the flames.
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The fire broke out in a fridge freezer but spread rapidly, engulfing the entire tower block and police said aluminum tiles and insulation which made up exterior cladding had failed fire safety tests.
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Cladding, added during a refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, may have played a part in the June 14 disaster when flames sped through the 24-storey residential building, trapping people inside, residents have said.
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The government said it was urgently conducting tests on some 600 high-rise buildings in England which have exterior cladding, often added to insulate them or improve the external appearance of ageing blocks.
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Other designers agree, like Diogo Paradinha, a principal of ATKA Arquitectos in Porto, Portugal, which used cork cladding to insulate the master bedroom in a house from noise coming from a nearby school.
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Police investigating the cause of London's most deadly fire since World War Two have said it started in a faulty fridge and spread rapidly because of external cladding on the 24-storey building.
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With cladding on each of the 21974 high rises tested so far having failed combustibility tests, and hundreds of fire doors missing from buildings, the language of politics has now itself become incendiary.
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The units, which will have big decks for barbecuing, heated patios and cedar cladding, will be priced at more than $503 million and will be maintained and rented out by an outside company.
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Anxiety about the building materials appeared to be spreading to other countries, even though the United States and most countries in Europe had restrictions on the kind of cladding used on Grenfell Tower.
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Downing Street at first suggested that 600 tower blocks, and thousands of families, were at risk — though that proved to be the total number of high-rise homes with any form of cladding.
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Aluminium cladding from Olympic Way and St Pancras Way in London, Waverley House in Bristol, Sky Plaza and Concept Place in Leeds and Greetham Street in Portsmouth failed the tests, the company said.
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That reactor and Leibstadt, the largest Swiss atomic power station, have been offline for months following maintenance issues, including the discovery of discolouration in eight cladding tubes used to encase Leibstadt's fuel rods.
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High-rise towers in three British cities — London, Salford and Newcastle — were illuminated on Wednesday night with messages spotlighting dangerous cladding, the absence of fire doors and the lack of sprinklers inside buildings.
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Equipped with a higher ride height and Outback-esque plastic cladding, the Regal TourX has all-wheel drive, a two-liter, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine making 250 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque.
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Britain's building safety rules are relatively lax compared to those of other wealthy countries, as is enforcement of them; tests conducted after the fire found that the cladding did not meet even those standards.
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The United Arab Emirates, of which Dubai is a member, revised its building safety code in 2013 to require that cladding on all new buildings over 15 meters (50 feet) tall be fire-resistant.
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Judith Hackitt says a new regulatory framework is needed to strengthen the system, though she stopped short of calling for a ban on flammable cladding that is believed to have contributed to the blaze.
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Here workers for FM Global, an engineer-cum-insurer, set fire to wall cladding, hurl projectiles at reinforced glass or test roofing designs for the gusts of wind they can take before tearing off.
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In an accompanying written statement, she referred to marketing materials by a distributor of Arconic products which likened Reynobond PE to petrol and urged customers to opt for another, non-combustible type of cladding.
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The fire was fed by flammable cladding on the facade of the building that survivors have charged was installed to beautify their public housing project for the benefit of wealthy neighbors in west London.
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One person was lightly injured in the explosion which shattered glass doors and windows and scorched metal cladding at the main entrance of the building in what the police said was a deliberate attack.
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Police have said they believe the system of insulation and cladding panels added during a refurbishment of Grenfell Tower may have contributed to the rapid spread of the fire in which 80 people died.
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Quite unfortunately, all fingers appear to be pointing in the same direction, at a new aluminum rainscreen cladding installed, in part, to make the building more attractive to wealthy neighbors in luxury flats nearby.
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Residents of one London apartment block were told last week that replacing the cladding — the outer skin of the building — would cost $2.5 million to $2.8 million, and that they were expected to pay.
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What We Found For the most part, it is not luxury apartment towers, but buildings filled with first-time buyers, retirees, working-class people and immigrants that have shouldered the burden of combustible cladding.
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The United States and Britain have relatively tough regulations on the potential flammability of internal material used in cladding, but other factors — such as how panels are made and installed — could come into play.
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On Friday, there were reports that 60 buildings had failed new fire safety tests, which examined the cladding used on the structures as well as the foam insulation similar to that used in Grenfell.
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Last week, the London borough of Camden ordered the evacuation of 4,000 residents of a five-tower complex, Chalcots Estate, where the buildings were covered in the same flammable cladding used on Grenfell Tower.
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Dorney Tower, completed in 1967 and refurbished in 2008, shares several problematic features with Grenfell Tower, which was encased in a flammable exterior covering, known as cladding, that contributed to the fire's rapid spread.
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Separately, the authorities are racing to identify and evacuate dozens of high-rises wrapped in the same kind of combustible cladding as Grenfell Tower in London, where a fire killed at least 79 people.
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The fire at the 24-storey Grenfell Tower housing block was Britain's deadliest since World War Two and has prompted urgent fire safety checks on cladding from hundreds of high-rise buildings across England.
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In total Unite said it had submitted cladding from 132 buildings for testing by the Building Research Establishment which is doing the work on behalf of the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
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Williams said AXA had upgraded its administration so that information on the number of tall buildings it insures or the type of cladding they are using is more easily available, helping to identify risks quickly.
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Eyewitness reports and investigations have suggested that cladding fixed to the outside of buildings for decoration, insulation or protection may have contributed to the spread of many fires in Dubai over the last three years.
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The request came from current and former employees of Rydon Maintenance Ltd, the main contractor in charge of the refurbishment, as well as from Harley Facades Ltd, a sub-contractor that dealt with the cladding.
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Construction has reached the 63rd floor and the superstructure - the concrete shell and the cladding - is to be completed next year, Jomah said, adding that delays in some areas were inevitable because of technical challenges.
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The modifications to the building sought to turn spaces within the base of the tower into new apartments—in the process sealing off a fire escape—and re-cladding the structure with new insulated panels.
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Britain's government has already promised 400 million pounds ($500 million) for replacing flammable cladding on high-rise public housing blocks and 200 million pounds for replacing it on buildings whose owners refused to remove it.
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Leaders of the council in another London borough, Camden, said it would remove external cladding panels from five tower blocks on a local estate after finding they were not to the standard it had commissioned.
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The officer in charge of the police investigation has said exterior cladding at Grenfell Tower had failed all fire safety tests and that police say they would consider criminal charges, including manslaughter, over the fire.
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The sleek Calphalon Signature Stainless Steel 10-Piece Cookware Set is great for people who want five-ply cladding stainless steel cookware but are reluctant — or just unable — to splurge on a high-end brand.
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But her 159-page report was criticized for not making specific recommendations, not even to ban the sort of cladding used at Grenfell or to require sprinklers and multiple fire stairs in high-rise buildings.
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Much of the early focus has been on cladding and insulation that are thought to have allowed the blaze to race up the sides of the building, leaving many people with no way to escape.
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The United States and Britain have tougher regulations on the potential flammability of internal material used in cladding, but other factors — like how panels are made and installed — could come into play, Mr. Miers said.
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Witnesses who will give evidence in the phase-two public hearings will include representatives from the architects, contractors and sub-contractors who carried out the refurbishment, and from the makers and sellers of the cladding.
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"Big Ben Must Bong For Brexit," screamed a front-page headline in the British tabloid The Daily Express, which was superimposed on a picture of the clock minus the scaffolding and cladding that conceal it.
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But Ms. Hackitt's 159-page report stopped short of recommending a ban on flammable facades, particularly the kind of cladding that proved to be a critical element in the rapid spread of the Grenfell fire.
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Witnesses who will give evidence in the phase-two public hearings will include representatives from the architects, contractors and sub-contractors who carried out the refurbishment, and from the makers and sellers of the cladding.
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" Greg Hands, the minister for trade and investment, said in a separate interview with Sky News on Sunday that "my understanding is that the cladding that was reported was not in accordance with building regulations.
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While the new NATO home features an amphitheatre-like council room, with sleek black-and-grey cladding and the latest audio-visual technology, it will struggle to match its predecessor for post-Cold War drama.
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The Grenfell fire was started by a fridge-freezer but spread quickly, partly because of the use of flammable cladding panels which were afixed to the outside of the 24-storey building, experts have said.
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However a spokeswoman for the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), which ordered the cladding tests and regulations review, said sign-off by inspectors did not absolve contractors of responsibility to meet safety standards.
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The AP reports that FirstEnergy Stadium may not be wrapped in the exact same material as Grenfell Tower: A spokesman for the mayor of Cleveland would not say if the stadium was built with the cladding.
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In an article published soon after last year's Torch fire, Barry Greenberg and Michael Kortbawi at UAE law firm Bin Shabib & Associates said the cost of replacing cladding on skyscrapers with safer materials would be "prohibitive".
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The U.K. government has announced that around 600 high-rise apartment buildings around England use similarly combustible cladding to London's Grenfell Tower, where a massive fire killed at least 79 residents last week, per the BBC.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has called for a national investigation into the cladding, used on facades buildings mainly for insulation or to improve their appearance, after all those checked since the fire failed safety tests.
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About 16,000 private apartments are still wrapped in the kind of exterior cladding that fed the Grenfell fire, and many of the business-friendly policies that allowed the tower to be built cheaply remain in place.
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"The government should significantly restrict the use of desktop studies to approve changes to cladding and other systems to ensure that they are only used where appropriate and with sufficient, relevant test evidence," her report recommended.
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The public hearings, which started in September 2017, have established that a combustible cladding system fitted to the tower's external walls during the recent refurbishment was the main factor in the unstoppable spread of the fire.
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That economic disparity was brought into sharp focus after it became clear that cheap flammable cladding and insulation had been used on the exterior of the building as a cost-saving measure during a recent renovation.
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"Cursed be he that moves my bones," we are cautioned by the epitaph on Shakespeare's tomb, but that has not deterred us from rearranging the skeletal outlines of his life and cladding them in speculative flesh.
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The idea that parts of Big Ben would be draped in white cladding and muted while the country completes its divorce from the European Union has been too much for some of the politicians driving Brexit.
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The cladding on the building — sheets of aluminum composite material, encasing a flammable polyethylene insulation — has been associated with high-rise fires in other countries and its use is restricted in the United States and elsewhere.
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If the cladding fails a planned second round of testing, however, Unite said it would be forced to reduce its bed count by up to 600 during the 2017-2018 academic year while it replaces it.
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There were many questions after the blaze was extinguished, and it was discovered that among numerous safety hazards, a particularly combustible form of cladding was used on the facade of the building in order to cut costs.
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If investigators confirm that the cladding was why the fire spread so rapidly and the building completely incinerated, then more of the responsibility could fall on the national government for failing to regulate and ban the material.
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The type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower and many other buildings has failed government safety tests following the fire and some insurers are now reluctant to cover them, industry experts say, particularly for buildings under construction.
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The fire on June 14, 2017, began on the fourth floor of the 24-story building and spread rapidly upward because of flammable exterior cladding and insulation that had been added to the building the year before.
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LONDON (Reuters) - London's Grenfell Tower, where a huge fire killed 71 people a year ago, had been fitted during a recent refurbishment with cladding containing a material as flammable as petrol, a public inquiry heard on Tuesday.
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"Our understanding is that the ignition of the polyethylene within the cladding panel produces a flaming reaction more quickly than dropping a match into a barrel of petrol," Stephanie Barwise, another lawyer representing survivors, told the inquiry.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The number of high-rise apartment blocks with external cladding in Britain that have failed fire safety tests following the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze has risen to 75, communities minister Sajid Javid said on Monday.
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Rydon was the main contractor responsible for a 2014-2016 refurbishment that saw the high-rise Grenfell Tower's exterior fitted with flammable cladding panels of a type that government ministers have said did not comply with regulations.
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Using 24 foot-long heart pine beams salvaged from the original roof as cladding, they built an abstract rectangular tree trunk that rises through the cutout first level of the addition and is the home's poetic core.
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In addition to Whirlpool, based in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the suit names as defendants cladding supplier Arconic Inc, headquartered in Pittsburgh, and insulation maker Celotex Corp, a U.S. subsidiary of French multinational Saint-Gobain, based outside Philadelphia.
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"I haven't seen 20,000 pounds since I scrimped and saved to purchase my property," said William Martin, a medical student in Sheffield who was told each apartment had to pay that sum to fix his building's cladding.
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Builders in Britain were allowed to wrap residential apartment towers — perhaps several hundred of them — from top to bottom in flammable cladding, a practice forbidden for high-rise buildings in the United States and many European countries.
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If the cladding were illegal, that would deflect responsibility for the disaster away from the government and toward the tower's owners and building contractors, but a close examination of the regulations does not support the ministers' assertions.
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On Saturday, Sajid Javid, the secretary of state for communities and local government, told Sky News that the evacuation in Camden had been prompted by concerns beyond cladding, including problems with insulation, fire doors and gas piping.
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The blaze, which is also subject to a separate criminal investigation, highlighted the area's extreme disparities in living conditions between rich and poor, with allegations that the cladding had been added purely to improve its visual impact.
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The contractor who retrofitted the external insulation on the building said the work was compliant but the manufacturer of the cladding panels had advised in marketing material that non-flammable variants should be used on tall buildings.
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John Valiulis is a fire protection engineer in Tusla, Oklahoma who has prepared a white paper detailing the areas that have permitted the cladding on the condition that traditional fire safety protections like working sprinklers are in place.
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The Grenfell blaze, which killed 71 people, started on the fourth floor of a 24-floor building, ignited the exterior cladding and raced up to the top within half an hour, fire experts said at a public inquiry.
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Westpac is asking developers to provide information about building certification, the type of product used for cladding, the manufacturing company, as well as whether the projects comply with the Building Code of Australia, Lording said in a statement.
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Authorities worldwide have grappled with what to do about buildings wrapped in widely-used cladding products that turned the west London apartment block in to a burning "death trap," according to survivors, as flames raced up the facade.
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He declined to say whether the cladding - layers fixed to the outside of buildings for decoration, insulation or protection - had affected the development of the fire, and directed queries about building materials to the Dubai Civil Defence authority.
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The Department for Communities and Local Government, the government department which is responsible for setting the regulations enforced by building control, has said the cladding system used at Grenfell did not comply with the building rules it oversees.
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The devastating inferno has raised concerns about the cladding used on the facades of buildings, mainly for insulation or to improve their appearance, prompting urgent safety tests to be carried out on similar tower blocks around the country.
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In addition to Arconic, the Pittsburgh-based firm that made the cladding, the lawsuit targets Celotex, a British company that made the insulation, and Whirlpool, a Michigan-based firm that now owns the company that made the refrigerator.
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The managing director of the company that carried out those renovations, Harley Facades Limited, told the BBC he was not aware of any link between the fire and exterior cladding it added to the building during the refurbishing.
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Instead of the traditional beige- or gray-painted stucco cladding of the local vernacular, the exterior of the three-story apartment building is covered entirely by aluminum and steel panels that open and close hydraulically, like massive petals.
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She said that because all the tower blocks tested so far had failed, questions were being raised that even cladding deemed to be safer than that which had been used at Grenfell may not meet fire safety standards.
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The Cross Country model also comes with black cladding on the outside to give it a more crossover-like appearance, but the luxury package removes this, giving the exterior of my tester a cleaner, more traditional wagon shape.
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Demand for cladding surged with rising fuel costs and concerns about global warming, and over time, producers began selling it in a thin "sandwich" design: Two sheets of aluminum around a core made of flammable plastics like polyethylene.
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Smoke was still wafting out of the blackened shell of the Grenfell Tower on Thursday where specialist firefighters and dog search teams faced hazardous conditions as they scoured the wreck, with external cladding still falling from the building.
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That puts it just 1.1 inches lower than the XC90 SUV, and, with plastic cladding around the wheel arches and door sills, Volvo says the Cross Country is designed to go places that its more road-going cars can't.
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LONDON, June 26 (Reuters) - The number of high-rise tower blocks with external cladding in Britain that have failed fire safety tests following the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze has risen to 75, communities minister Sajid Javid said on Monday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain announced a review of building and fire safety rules on Friday after tests conducted following last month's deadly tower block blaze in London found a cladding system known to be used on 82 buildings breached regulations.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday Britain must hold a national investigation into exterior cladding used on high-rise buildings after all those checked after the deadly London tower block blaze this month failed safety tests.
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Update 06/15/2017 8:40 AM - The BBC now reports that that the aluminum cladding was filled with a flammable polyethylene core, the same material found in high-rise fires in France, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.
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The Equality and Human Rights Commission questioned whether authorities had violated their duty to protect life by allowing buildings to be covered in cladding as flammable as petrol, leading to one of the worst blazes in modern British history.
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Before the fire, the cladding had been banned in the United States and some European countries because it was too combustible, but English building rules were more lenient, opening the door to its use on hundreds of high-rises.
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On Wednesday, the Department for Communities and Local Government, which is conducting the safety review, said the number of buildings with the risky cladding was estimated at no more than 240, down from an earlier figure of around 530.
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Accompanying the dreamy, washed-out photographs of their enviable "self-designed house on the Norfolk coast" are disjointed paragraphs in which Cusk's husband discusses experimental stone cladding and Cusk reflects on what the creation of a home really means.
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LONDON — Britain's prime minister on Tuesday ordered an investigation into cladding and insulation on high-rise towers across the country, as the authorities struggled to contain the risk from construction materials that leave tall structures vulnerable to catastrophic fires.
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In New York City, cladding must be tested and found to be fire resistant before it can ever be put on a building, said Thomas Fariello, first deputy commissioner for the city's Department of Buildings, which enforces building codes.
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"We have seen some draft exclusions, or partial exclusions, for claims in respect of cladding used on tall buildings where it does not comply with building regulations," Andrew Rose, claims specialist at insurance broker Miller, told a recent industry briefing.
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The Association of British Insurers (ABI), which warned of the dangers of cladding made from combustible material in May, a month before the Grenfell fire, called last week for an immediate end to its use on new and refurbished buildings.
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Such cladding is not necessarily hazardous, but it can be flammable under certain circumstances and, depending on a skyscraper's design, may channel fires through windows into the interiors of buildings, said Phil Barry, founder of Britain's CWB Fire Safety Consultants Ltd.
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Victoria state, which includes the city of Melbourne, said it would establish a new agency to disburse funds to owners of buildings for replacing high-risk cladding — the first in Australia to do so, with other states expected to follow.
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The cladding work carried about by Rydon Group Ltd, the main contractor on the 2014-2016 refurbishment of the building, and its subcontractor Harley Facades involved attaching insulation boards to the tower's concrete facade and covering them with aluminum composite panels.
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A fire that killed at least 79 people at a London tower block started in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, and the outside cladding engulfed by the blaze has since been shown to fail all safety tests, London police said on Friday.
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Five-ply cladding, which conducts and retains heat better, is sturdier and more resistant to warping, but more expensive, slower to heat up, and according to the cooking pros we consulted for this guide, not necessarily crucial for better cooking.
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Its various pieces accommodate diverse dishes, from eggs, steaks, and pasta to stews, soups, and more — all benefiting from five-ply cladding composed of three inner layers of aluminum fused between two outer layers of stainless steel for stability and durability.
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The issue has far-reaching implications not only for the construction industry but also for social housing landlords and private landlords, as dozens of other high-rise buildings have been found to have cladding that could pose a fire safety risk.
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The suit says flammable plastic parts in a refrigerator from U.S. appliance maker Whirlpool Corp ignited the blaze, and the flames were swiftly spread by highly combustible materials in the American-designed insulation and exterior cladding that encased the structure.
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At any given moment, you can see the passive house and the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge reflected in the glass cladding of the Bridge building, which will serve as a business incubator for companies and Cornell Tech graduates and research teams.
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One email from the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organization to Artelia discussed several options for slashing cladding costs and suggested that using cheaper aluminum composite panels, rather than panels made of zinc, could yield a "saving of £160,368," about $380,000.
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The speed with which the flames spread was due to the fact that the tower's external walls had been fitted during a refurbishment completed in 2016 with a combustible cladding and insulation system that acted as fuel, Moore-Bick said.
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If other protections fail and fire penetrates the cladding, "It is like you have got a high-rise building and you are encasing it in kerosene," said Edwin Galea, director of the Fire Safety Engineering Group at the University of Greenwich.
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For 22016 of the buildings, the same builders that installed the cladding have won new contracts to remove or replace the panels, according to the owners of the buildings, who said they were paying millions of pounds for the work.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Construction companies have been banned from using scantily clad women to publicize cladding and other products at one of Britain's largest trade shows, the latest in a series of business and sports events to stop using female models.
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Mr. Moore-Bick found that the fire brigade had no evacuation plan for Grenfell, that it had failed to instruct firefighters on the risk created by the cladding and insulation, and that it was too slow to deploy crews with breathing apparatuses.
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According to analyses carried out for the inquiry by fire safety experts, the blaze started on the fourth floor, ignited the cladding that covered the surface of the tower and spread up the facade to the top floor within half an hour.
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The government said the number of high-rise tower blocks in England found to have "cladding" - panels placed on the facades of buildings, mainly for insulation or to improve their appearance - that have failed fire safety tests had risen to 75 from 60.
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"I will change the building regulations to ban the use of combustible cladding for all high rise residential buildings, hospitals, care homes and student accommodation and bring about a change in culture on building safety," housing minister James Brokenshire said in a statement.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The government is urgently conducting safety checks on an estimated 600 high-rise buildings in England which have exterior cladding panels after at least 79 people died when fire consumed a London tower block last week, officials said on Thursday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The cladding system used on London's Grenfell Tower would only have met British regulatory standards if the two main materials had passed a key safety test together, according to a Reuters analysis of the building code and data on the materials.
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Three weeks after the June 1353 fire, neither the two companies involved in the cladding on the Grenfell Tower nor the local authority which enforces the building codes have addressed questions from Reuters about whether that test was ever conducted and its outcome.
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After initial testing highlighted potential fire risks in buildings across the country, a second, more extensive round of tests found a specific cladding system known to be in use on 82 buildings did not meet building regulations, the government said in a statement.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Cladding on 120 different tower blocks has failed fire tests in the wake of a blaze that killed 79 people in London, showing a widespread breach of British building regulations over previous decades, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday.
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As the government searches for a new buyer, some of Tata's customers are already looking for new sources of steel which is used in everything from car roofs to Heinz baked bean cans, cladding on Ikea buildings and some of the country's coins.
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The finale unites players across the three siren stations and the concert hall for one last mutual gasp — even after audience members in Disney Hall have been told that the building's titanium cladding has protected them alone from the aliens' deadly heat ray.
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LONDON — Apartment residents, government officials, and property owners and managers are arguing over who should pay the heavy price to replace flammable cladding on structures across Britain, after that material contributed to the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 71 people last year.
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In addition to the public bodies under scrutiny in the hearings, two American manufacturers — Arconic, which sold the combustible material used for the Grenfell cladding; and Whirlpool, which owns the company that made the refrigerator that started the fire — have also attracted criticism.
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Ensconced in the Parc de la Villette, Jean Nouvel's creation cuts a striking silhouette: a wedgelike, vaguely biomorphic rejection of symmetry that's approached via a wide uphill esplanade paved with tiles in the same bird shape as those cladding the orchestra hall itself.
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As many across the political spectrum have criticized the regulatory shortcomings that may have led to the Grenfell fire, members of the insurance industry have said they warned the government about the risks of flammable cladding just a month before it happened.
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In the wake of the catastrophe, municipal authorities have begun an emergency effort to replace cladding on other vulnerable buildings, the government has pledged a full inquiry, and the police have said they will consider bringing manslaughter charges after determining who was responsible.
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Though much of the corrugated exterior was covered with new paneling after the 1995 fire, Ms. Rouillard said that her team "found little time capsules" of the original cladding behind the 1940s refrigeration unit that had been built along the eastern exterior wall.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's New South Wales (NSW) government will inspect more than 1,000 residential and commercial towers that may have potentially unsafe cladding and introduce new fire safety reforms to avoid a deadly inferno such as the Grenfell Tower fire in London.
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The government announced that 210 high-rise buildings, in 212.8 areas, had used cladding and insulation similar to those installed at Grenfell Tower, the West London apartment building that was consumed by flames on June 14 in Britain's deadliest fire in decades.
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The building they entered was built in 1974 in an architectural style known as Brutalism, and the original concrete structure, built without cladding, was designed to contain a fire in one apartment long enough for firefighters to prevent it from spreading very far.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Some building companies that installed dangerous cladding on social housing blocks across Britain are now winning new contracts following the Grenfell Tower blaze to remove their original work and install panels that can pass safety tests, a Reuters review shows.
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Chris Blythe, CEO of trade body the Chartered Institute of Building, said builders hired to carry out high-rise cladding projects used many subcontractors and advisers, and that this could lead to misunderstandings, with one party thinking another had ensured work was compliant.
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But in the absence of any hard and fast guidance from the central government as to what exactly councils should be spending their money on, particularly regarding the exterior cladding that is thought to have helped the Grenfell fire to spread, responses have varied.
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Expert reports released by the public inquiry on Monday, the first day of oral hearings into the causes of the fire, pointed to a combustible external cladding installed during a 2012-2016 refurbishment as the main cause of the rapid spread of the fire.
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The town consists of 16 Queenslander-style homes — which have wrap around balconies, stumps for ventilation and weatherboard cladding — but there are also roads, street lights, a water purification plant, power depot, a dam with a pontoon, plus a phone line to each home.
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Video demos on Body Labs' website show its tech being used to augment a human with digital content as the person moves around by cladding them in a full-body gaming avatar 'suit' or adding boxing gloves and bunny slippers to a dancing man.
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LONDON (Reuters) - It will be months until the final death toll from a London tower block blaze is known, British police said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Theresa May revealed that 20163 other high-rise buildings also had exterior cladding that failed fire tests.
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Salt Lake City, Utah-based Nikola claims it was issued six design patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office between February and April 2018 for its wrap windshield, mid-entry door, fuselage, fender, side cladding and the overall design of the Nikola One.
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This cookware is constructed of five-ply cladding: a copper core sandwiched between two layers of aluminum that are encased within two layers of stainless steel, which serve as the internal cooking surface and the external surface exposed to the heating element and air.
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With their winged lions guarding the treasure inside, their walls of tapestry brick, terra cotta cladding and accents, their interior murals connecting the building to its function and place in the community, and their geometric stained glass windows, Sullivan's banks instantly draw the eye.
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You can't, he says: Not all woods take heat the way Cryptomeria japonica does, and if the burn isn't deep enough, the sooty layer will erode, taking the lovely black of your cladding, and its pragmatic fire- pest- and weather-resistant properties, along with it.
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A biker paused at the precipice of a new 30-foot-high platform, the park's main architectural statement, its faceted frame cladding a big truss to support the structure's improbable cantilever, which looms, like the prow of a marooned ship, over the river's edge.
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The government conducted an audit sample of more than 170,000 buildings built since the 1980s and found that 1,011 of them had cladding that may be potentially unsafe and need further inspection, NSW Minister for Innovation and Better Regulation Matt Kean said on Friday.
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The grim news shadowed the start of Brexit talks, a delicate task for a government already weakened by other attacks and questions about regulations on cladding that may have contributed to a devastating public-housing fire whose death toll is 19723 and still rising.
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Camden officials emphasized that the Chalcots Estate had "fire-resistant rock wool insulation" and "fire-resistant sealant between floors," which helped contain a fire in 2012, but said that they would "immediately begin preparing to remove" cladding panels from five towers in the complex.
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Reuters identified 210 blocks which, since 2006, had been cladded with aluminum panels with polyethylene cores - a form of cladding that failed the DCLG's test, and which the prime minister and three other ministers have said breaches safety regulations when used in tall buildings.
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The announcement of the plan to sell Arconic's building and construction systems division, which makes facades, windows and framing products, came one year after a major fire broke out at London's Grenfell Tower apartment complex, where the company's Reynobond PE panels were used in the cladding.
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An official inquiry into the catastrophic chain of events in June 2017 that turned an ordinary kitchen fire into an inferno that killed 71 people last week found that combustible cladding contributed to the tragedy, and also questioned fire brigade advice that residents should stay put.
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Nearly two years after the Grenfell fire in June 2017, this is what we found of the government's efforts, which have left tens of thousands of people at risk: About 13,000 private apartments are still wrapped in the kind of exterior cladding that fed the Grenfell fire.
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Led by Margaret Thatcher, successive British governments diluted hundreds of pages of detailed building rules into much vaguer benchmarks; let private companies take over inspection work; and then, in the mid-2000s, opened the door to flammable cladding with small changes to the guidelines, experts said.
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The authorities in London are evacuating hundreds of families from apartments in five high-rise buildings that have exterior cladding and insulation similar to that used on a high rise, Grenfell Tower, where at least 79 people are believed to have died in a fire last week.
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A recent example of this was the renovation of the historic Schofield Building in downtown Cleveland, which had previously been covered with a metal cladding, and had its original terra-cotta exterior restored, in turn becoming the Kimpton Schofield hotel, with apartments on the upper floors.
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After the police statement on Friday about Grenfell Tower, Tony Rice, a shareholder of Omnis Exteriors, which manufactured materials for Grenfell's cladding system, stepped down from the board of trustees of Shelter, a charity that has been providing advice and support to the victims of the fire.
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And his deputy, Mr. Feilding-Mellen, a property developer, had insisted on keeping down the cost of the external cladding used in a £10 million renovation in 2014, according to a leaked email, resulting in the choice of what turned out to be highly flammable materials.
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The report drew swift rebukes from survivors of the fire, which killed 71 people, and from Labour members of Parliament, who have demanded a ban on flammable cladding of the sort used on Grenfell Tower, a move the Royal Institute of British Architects has also endorsed.
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But early speculation is that the cladding – which consists of an aluminium exterior with a flammable polyethylene core – may have contributed to the ferocity of the blaze, with the cavity behind the panels and the concrete exterior creating a chimney effect that helped spread the flames.
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Towering above the work of her colleagues, the two- and three-dimensional elements of Laurie Kang's "Involution" (2019), a construction of steel wall studs on flexible tracks curving into a room-length double-S formation, are constantly changing roles, from photography to painting, cladding to frame, sculpture to environment.
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There also is no mention of whether or not the structure will use aluminum-composite cladding, a cheap material known to be flammable, and the same one that fueled the New Year's Eve fire and the three other major skyscraper fires that have occurred in the city since 2012.
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A spokesman for the communities and local government department, the office in charge of testing the buildings, later said that the 600 figure was an estimate of how many had any form of cladding and not an indication of how many would eventually be found to be dangerous.
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"We believe this is the right decision because of the inconsistency of building codes across the world and issues that have arisen in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy regarding code compliance of cladding systems in the context of buildings' overall designs," the company said in a statement.
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Hundreds of families were ordered to evacuate apartments in the five high-rise buildings of the Chalcots Estate in northwest London on Friday night in an urgent scramble after it emerged that, among other safety risks, the buildings had exterior cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower.
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"It's obvious that the contractors took it upon themselves to use cheaper cladding and material, and I'm sure that's the case in hundreds of other towers," said Tony Glockner, a local activist and resident who lives in public housing owned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
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"We believe this is the right decision because of the inconsistency of building codes across the world and issues that have arisen in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy regarding code compliance of cladding systems in the context of buildings' overall designs," the company said in the statement.
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Christopher Miers, the managing director of Probyn Miers, a forensic architecture firm that examines buildings that are defective or damaged by fire, noted that such cladding — typically consisting of aluminum sheets sandwiched over insulation — had been a factor in skyscraper blazes in the United Arab Emirates and China.
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Two products that played a major role in the deadly blaze at Grenfell Tower had been criticized for their fire risks and faced tighter restrictions in the U.S. Today, the British government called for a major national investigation into cladding and insulation in high-rise buildings across the country.
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The cladding aside, there were other fire-safety issues that were not dealt with by anyone, including the questionable installation of new gas pipes, inadequate fire proofing, and the lack of a central fire alarm or a sprinkler system, though neither was required for a structure built in 1974.
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"Any changes to the facade to satisfy a single requirement such as fire performance will impinge on all other aspects of the wall's performance as well as its cost," Stephen Ledbetter, the director of the Center for Window and Cladding Technology, an industry group, wrote in testimony to Parliament.
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LONDON — Hundreds of survivors and relatives of victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in London have sued makers of the flammable cladding and insulation that fed the blaze in an American court, trying despite steep legal obstacles to hold the firms liable as the two-year anniversary of the fire nears.
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