More than UK£ 5 billion to replace flammable building cladding, announced by the UK Government may still not be enough. The UK has promised a further £ 3.5 bn funding to help owners remove non fire safe cladding materials from buildings > 18m high, adding to £ 1.6...
The Grenfell fire inquiry is continuing to question information supplied to customers by cladding manufacturers. As indicated in pinfa Newsletter n°121, input to the inquiry has suggested that one product used on Grenfell Tower may have been sold as fire Class 0 based...
A new list of high-rise building façade fires is launched by Wikipedia, with nearly 60 incidents over the last 30 years. The most recent listed fire is the Samhwan Art Nouveau building façade fire, Ulsan, South Korea, 8th October 2020, in which nearly a hundred people...
pinfa supports reinforcing the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) as central to ensuring building fire safety. The pinfa response to the public consultation is aligned with the arguments of CPE (Construction Products Europe) and emphasises that the CPR currently...
UK Government proposes greater accountability and responsibility for fire & structural safety for architects, throughout buildings lifecycles, including design phase. This follows the conclusions of the independent (Hackitt) review (see pinfa Newsletter n°92)...
