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Government ‘clarifies’ fire safety guidelines and launches yet another consultation
The government has published new draft guidance to fire safety building regulations – and launched its third post-Hackitt Review consultation on the changes
Grenfell Tower
News about the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and Studio E Architects, plus information about fire safety and changes to the Building Regulations
Grenfell fire: detectives carry out three interviews under caution
Police detectives investigating the Grenfell Fire have carried out three interviews under caution, Scotland Yard has announced
Combustible cladding ban should apply to existing buildings, MPs urge
The government’s plans to ban combustible cladding do not go ‘far enough’ and should be extended to existing buildings, a group of MPs has argued
Outcry over Hackitt’s Building Regs review is shortsighted
The Grenfell-prompted inquiry into the Building Regulations may have lacked stridency over inflammable cladding, but its holistic approach has much to commend it, writes the ACA’s Brian Waters
To prevent another Grenfell, architects need to see a project through to the end
Architects are best placed to prevent the dangerous discrepancies between architectural drawings and what ends up being built, writes PRP’s Andrew Mellor
First winner of Grenfell memorial fund named
A scholarship set up in honour of two young Italian architects who died in the Grenfell Tower fire has named Giulia Pannochia as its first winner
Private blocks with dangerous cladding double what government thought
The government has admitted that around 300 private tower blocks in the UK have dangerous Grenfell-style cladding – twice as many as previously thought
Grenfell: Certification chief hits out at ‘fundamental’ procurement problem
Construction’s ’fundamental’ problem with procurement is making ’good companies complicit in bad outcomes’, according to the head of the industry’s leading certification body
Architects on estate regeneration: ‘Those living at Grenfell weren’t listened to’
What does the Grenfell Tower fire tell us about how local communities are treated during council estate refurbishments? Ella Jessel asks leading architects about the wider, social lessons for the profession post-Grenfell
Exclusive: Architectural expert sacked from Grenfell inquiry
An expert witness who claimed to be an architect but had not been on the ARB register since 2010 has been removed from his role on the Grenfell fire inquiry