Burning cladding on Grenfell Tower would have released 14 times more heat than a key government test allows, the Victoria Derbyshire show has learned. Energy emitted from the cladding and insulation ...
Cellulose insulation has been around since the 1970s, although it has become more popular in recent years, as green buildings now play a larger role in our society. Cellulose insulation includes more ...
Q I live in an area that is somewhat fire-prone. Is it OK to use wood chips on the planting beds next to my house? They won’t catch fire, will they? A For years, Master Gardeners have been singing the ...
The Grenfell Tower fire in the UK has shone a spotlight on building materials—and how fire retardant they are—after initial analysis suggested the rapid spread of the blaze was aided by the ...
The publication saw light in ACS Omega. There was a time when mazut was the final stage of oil refining; however, with technology becoming more efficient, the main residue from refining is now ...
A popular cladding brand failed a safety test this week - despite being seen as so fire-safe that it is permitted on tall buildings without any extra tests, Newsnight has learned. Cladding removed for ...
Cladding on more than 100 buildings has failed the latest round of government combustibility tests. Some 111 high-rise blocks use a combination of material that has not passed the second of six new ...
Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...
Burning cladding on Grenfell Tower would have released 14 times more heat than a key government test allows, the Victoria Derbyshire show has learned. Energy emitted from the cladding and insulation ...