SINGAPORE - A total of 36 buildings here, including an industrial complex in Toh Guan Road where a fire broke out in May resulting in one death, are using external cladding that may not adhere to ...

The use of cladding on the Grenfell Tower was “wholly unorthodox” and it would therefore be “wrong and unfair” to hold the manufacturer responsible for the 2017 fire, an inquiry heard on Tuesday.

SINGAPORE - A review panel has been set up as part of an ongoing probe into how safe the external panels used on buildings here are in the event of a fire. The panel will support the review of ...

SINGAPORE — A manager has been convicted of cheating over a type of unsafe building cladding that was later involved in a fatal fire in Singapore as well as London’s Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 that ...

Five years after 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire, which broke out on June 14, 2017, the UK government has announced plans to ban the type of cladding used to cover the external ...

Every time Tina Murolo hears a siren or alarm, she races with her heart in her mouth out onto her balcony and looks anxiously up the facade of her Sydney CBD apartment building for any sign of a fire.

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"You wouldn't put 'E' on a dog kennel": An industry source talks to the BBC's Tom Symonds Fire tests carried out as early as 2014 showed cladding used on Grenfell Tower failed to meet the safety ...