Intelligent FS, a Liverpool-based construction and fit out company, is setting its sights on an ambitious move to make all tall buildings across the UK safe with fireproof cladding.

The firm, which has a specialist cladding and facade division to ensure fire compliance in high-rise buildings, has helped to design and install an array of cladding solutions on behalf of housing developers since the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017.

In 2020, documents presented to Liverpool City Council’s housing select committee showed that of 220 high rise buildings that were examined by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service, 13 were found to have been fitted with Aluminium Composite Material (ACM), which is cladding similar to that which was used in the construction of Grenfell Tower.

This April, more than 35 homebuilders agreed to put £2 billion towards fixing unsafe cladding on high-rise buildings in England identified in the aftermath of the 2017 tragedy.

Now, with news that the government will fully fund the cost of replacing unsafe cladding for all leaseholders in residential buildings 18 metres (6 storeys) and over in England, Intelligent FS wants to expand its capacity ‘fivefold’ to help the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities achieve its mission.

Adam Gallagher, executive director of Intelligent FS (pictured left), says: “We believe we have a moral duty to ensure all residents who live in tall buildings can go to sleep at night safe in the knowledge that, in the event of a fire breaking out, their home is fitted with fireproof cladding.

“With hundreds of buildings still languishing with unsafe facades, we want to work with the government and developers to help ease the burden. That’s why we are expanding our operations fivefold to gear up for this necessary work.

“We are keen to start conversations with ministers, developers, leaseholders and any other parties who would like to take this forward.

“People’s safety is our number one priority – that’s why we need all UK high-rise buildings to be fitted with the correct cladding.”

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