News about the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and Studio E Architects, plus information about fire safety and changes to the Building Regulations
Architect Sam Webb, the tower block safety campaigner who exposed the problems at London’s notorious Ronan Point building as well as the issues that caused the Grenfell Tower fire, has died aged 85
The methods used to test cladding for fire risk are ‘full of mistakes from beginning to end’, an expert has told the Grenfell Tower Inquiry
Cladding of the type used on Grenfell Tower is to be banned from all new buildings in England
Early plans for a memorial to the 72 people who lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire have been unveiled by the Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission
Architects should be making contributions to the government’s £4 billlion fund to fix cladding on unsafe buildings, industry bodies have said
A former housing secretary has told the Grenfell Tower Inquiry that government departments competed to save the most money through deregulation
The Scottish government is set to ban the use of combustible materials on all new residential and ‘high-risk’ buildings above 11m
Former fire and safety minister Brandon Lewis snubbed repeated calls to create a building safety regulator prior to the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, the inquiry into the blaze heard yesterday
A government official has denied he said ‘show me the bodies’ when challenged by architect Sam Webb about the fire safety of tower blocks a year before the Grenfell disaster
A former government fire safety official has admitted that he ‘lulled’ senior colleagues into a ‘false sense of security’ over the risk of a Grenfell Tower-style fire in early 2015, more than two years before the tragic blaze
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