Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...

Up to 1,450 residential buildings may need remediation work, including about 250 high-rises Up to £3bn of public money may have to be spent assessing and removing potentially flammable cladding from ...

Following the deadly June 14 London Grenfell Tower fire that has killed at least 79 people, a nationwide investigation determined that dozens of U.K. high-rise buildings are potentially unsafe. On ...

The Australian state of Victoria is pioneering a model aimed at assessing and removing combustible cladding on buildings after setting up the world’s first major public body dedicated to cladding ...

Australian building owners face a bill that could run into billions of dollars to replace combustible cladding of the sort that fuelled the Greenfell tower fire in the UK, which killed 72 people, as ...

Dozens of high-rise apartment buildings across the state are still covered in flammable cladding. The ABC can reveal only 30 of the 76 buildings taking part in a government program offering 10-year ...

Slate is a metamorphic natural rock composed of clay minerals such as mica and chlorite, which give it a laminated texture and predominant shades of gray, black, and green. Widely used in the ...