The government has set aside £8m more in funding for council enforcement teams to hold building owners to account for cladding repairs on high-rise properties.

Housing association Hyde Group has won £10.8m in damages and costs from contractor Mulalley following a court battle over defective cladding.

The Building Safety Act and the Grenfell fire have put high-rise residential jobs in an uncomfortable spotlight. Kristina Smith meets the Seddon team refurbishing and recladding three residential towers in the West Midlands.

Balfour Beatty has failed in its attempt to force an architect to search its archives for any documents relating to a legal dispute over cladding defects on a building completed 13 years ago.

Contractor Mulalley has lost a court battle with a housing association over who was liable for defective cladding on four high-rise residential towers in Portsmouth.

The steel sector has responded to post-Grenfell fire safety concerns with a new steel facade system, writes Jonathan Arnold.

Balfour Beatty must face a legal claim for costs to remediate cladding on a residential scheme in Dorset, a judge has ruled.

The government has banned MCM (metal composite materials) cladding panels with an unmodified polyethylene (PE) core on all new buildings.

The forthcoming ban on combustible cladding in Scotland falls under a different building safety regime to that of England and Wales. Frances Tait explains how it will work.

Housing secretary Michael Gove has written to an industry body representing cladding and insulation manufacturers, demanding that they contribute to the cost of remediating unsafe buildings.

The government faces “practical difficulties” in pursuing overseas-based construction product manufacturers and developers when it comes to getting them to contribute to the cost of remediating defective buildings, housing secretary Michael Gove has admitted.

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) missed an opportunity help clarify government guidance that combustible ACM cladding should not be used on high-rise buildings in 2014.

The time limit to bring proceedings under the Defective Premises Act is set to double. Could it lead to a flood of cladding claims?

Housing secretary Michael Gove has written to the Construction Products Association, calling on cladding and insulation manufacturers to make a contribution to the cost of cladding remediation.

Construction workmanship, particularly around the installation of cavity barriers, needs to improve says Basil Jackson, as he summarises the changing advice around <18m buildings since the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Housebuilder and developer Countryside Properties has set aside £41m to cover the cost of remediation to bring buildings it has previously constructed in line with current Building Regulations.

The government has committed a total of £787m to fund the remediation of non-ACM cladding on residential buildings over 18m in the private and social housing sectors.

A building in West Croydon has become the first in the UK to be fitted with a new cladding fire detection system that removes the need for waking watch patrols.