cladding

Above ground it is a low-slung angular wisp of an object, whose cladding in mirrored steel deprives it of any sense of form or substance.

The block is surrounded by scaffolding because of cladding remediation work.

Or, it could function as a durable external cladding.

As well as a drop in sale prices, Taylor Wimpey also recorded £92m pre-tax loss for the first six months of the year largely due to "exceptional charges" from cladding fixes.

The annual buildings insurance costs for his apartment block, which contains 144 flats, have tripled in recent years, he says, to more than £150,000 mainly because the building is assessed as having dangerous cladding.