London fire: Grenfell Tower ‘renovated with deadly cladding’

The London tower devastated by a vicious building fire may have been installed with flammable cladding during a recent renovation.

Online records indicate contractor Harley Facades Limited installed “over-cladding with ACM cassette rainscreen” at Grenfell Tower.

ACM stands for aluminium composite material, which is the same combustible product blamed for fuelling nearly a dozen major high-rise fires globally in the past decade, including in Melbourne in 2014.

One person was killed and another six people injured in Roubaix, France, in 2012 after Mermoz Tower was refurbished with flammable cladding.

There have also been dramatic tower fires linked to the aluminium panels with polyethylene core in the United Arab Emirates, South Korea and the United States.

Mark, 45, a witness to the Wednesday’s London fire, said the Greenfell Tower had recently been renovated with cladding added to the outside. He believed the cladding caused the fire’s intensity…

Source: London fire: Grenfell Tower ‘renovated with deadly cladding’