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May 23, 2018 02:00 AM

U.K. leaders to seek ban of cladding on high rise buildings

Catherine Kavanaugh
Plastics News
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    Prime Minister Theresa May addresses the House of Commons during a question period May 23.

    LONDON—Government officials in the United Kingdom are planning for a future ban on flammable cladding on high-rise buildings as the public inquiry continues into the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed at least 73 people in June 2017.

    Exterior cladding and insulation made from a range of materials including aluminum, polyethylene, polyisocyanurate and phenolic have been blamed for the fast-spreading Grenfell Tower flames.

    Calling for the "strongest possible action" during her regular question session before the U.K.'s House of Commons May 23, Prime Minister Theresa May said she intended to go further than a government-commissioned review of the fire, which didn't "specifically recommend" a ban on cladding.

    A full inquiry into the fire is underway.

    "I think the deeply moving testimonies that we've already heard and will continue to hear from survivors and the bereaved leave no room for doubt that we must learn everything we can about what has happened," May said. "We must take the strongest possible action to stop such an unimaginable tragedy from ever happening again.

    "[The initial] recommendations did not include recommending the banning of ... cladding. We are minded to go further by banning combustible materials including cladding on high rise buildings."

    Any action must go through legal channels, however, before any bans are put in place, May added.

    First responders and survivors of the tragic fire called the initial government report "a betrayal and a whitewash."

    More than 300 other high-rise buildings in the U.K. are believed to be clad with similar materials.

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