Grenfell Tower was originally built with reinforced concrete in 1974. The refurbishment with external flammable cladding and insulation was completed just a year before the fire.

Britain’s government confirmed Friday that the tower block in London, where 72 people died, would be demolished, provoking a combination of anger and relief from survivors and bereaved families.

Grenfell Tower will be torn down despite victims’ families begging them to ‘keep the shrine of their loved ones’. The demolition is expected to take ‘around two years to sensitively take ...

On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in a kitchen at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London. It spread at an unprecedented rate, engulfing the 24-storey building and raging for 60 hours as the fire ...

London’s Grenfell Tower, which was engulfed in flames more than seven years ago in a disaster that killed 72 people, will be demolished, bereaved families and survivors said on Thursday. The ...

Grenfell Tower – what happens now? To demolish high-rise buildings, engineers often opt for 'top down' techniques, whereby a number of small, car-sized excavators are lifted onto the roof and ...

Bereaved families and survivors say want to "see justice" before work begins to take down the tower.

An inquiry into the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London that killed 72 people says U.S. company Arconic hid the dangers of its building materials.

Grenfell Tower will be taken down in works lasting around two years, the Government has announced. Parts of the building, scene of one of Britain’s worst tragedies, will be kept for inclusion in ...

Angela Rayner says the tower block will be dismantled - an announcement which has had a mixed reaction.

LONDON — A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a "death trap" where 72 ...