The UK government has now allocated 1.6 billion UK£ to remove non fire-safe cladding materials from buildings. The new UK£ 1 billion fund will help building owners remove flammable non-ACM (aluminium composite material) from residential buildings > 18 m high. It is...
Legislation to extend ban on combustible cladding materials for buildings is moving towards adoption in the UK. The proposal expected to be scheduled in Parliament this autumn includes reducing the height of buildings concerned from 18 m to 11 m, extending building...
BSI has published revised test methods for fire performance of building external cladding materials (BS 7414). The updated standards cover non-loadbearing systems either (part 1) applied to the building masonry or (part 2) on steel frame. Changes concern the test...
Five of the seven targeted product value chains in the new Plan concern flame retardants and fire safety: electronics and infor-mation and communication technology (ICT), batteries and vehicles, plastics, textiles (EU strategy for 2021) and construction. Proposals...
pinfa has proposed, through Cefic, improvements to the textile industry BREF including integration of PIN FRs into fibres and updates on alternative assessments. pinfa comments include cor-recting information on phosphorus in wastewaters, corrections on decomposition...
