All Grenfell Tower articles
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NewsSurvivors launch Grenfell legal claims as council begins action against cladding firm
Cases filed at High Court last month
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Grenfell Inquiry: What KCTMO and expert witnesses told us this week
Client says bending procurement rules ‘not uncommon’ as fire safety consultant savaged for failings in reports
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England still has 17 occupied high-rise buildings with no plan to remove ACM cladding
Cladding remediation works have also slowed in September despite lifting of lockdown restrictions
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Grenfell Inquiry: What we learned from project client KCTMO this week
Tenant Management Organisation had former architects on its staff and believed no more design expertise was needed
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Grenfell client ‘ignored legal advice’ on secret negotiations with Rydon
TMO head of capital investment admits ‘offline’ pre-appointment summit undermined his transparency claims
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Leeds housing association chief appointed to Grenfell Inquiry panel
Unity Homes’ Ali Akbor joins next month
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Client says costs didn’t drive choice not to hire design advisor, Grenfell Inquiry told
Former architect David Gibson ‘saw no need’ for CDA but admits he did not understand cladding system proposed for tower
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Consultant warned Grenfell client project would fail without fundamental reappraisal
Artelia initially said re-tendering job to overcome £2m budget deficit was not the solution – before performing a ‘volte-face’
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Trade bodies threaten to boot members out if they can’t prove competence
Focus on firms' abilities follow series of recommendations made following 2017 Grenfell fire
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Grenfell Inquiry: Window reveal contractor ‘assumed materials were fine’
Former Rydon project manager oversaw gaps being packed with combustible insulation then topped with uPVC surrounds
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Rydon ‘struggled’ to find cladding specialists for refurb, Grenfell Inquiry told
Main contractor’s commercial manager says Harley Facades was only specialist the firm had ever used
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Grenfell Inquiry: Rydon’s second full week in the spotlight
Project manager believed firm had been quite thorough in checking work quality; refurbishment director says lack of design challenge still haunts him
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Camden council relaunches search for firm to repair Chalcots Estate
Wates had been lined up for the job
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Grenfell Inquiry: Rydon manager says firm was ‘thorough’ in checking work
Main contractor’s final site manager was drafted in after project manager and contracts manager quit
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Grenfell Inquiry: What we’ve learned from Rydon so far
A round-up of the evidence given at the Grenfell Inquiry by the project’s main contractor
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Grenfell Inquiry: Rydon project manager quit over work pressures
Main contractor’s onsite boss left company 14 months into project as schedule began to slip
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Dame Judith Hackitt on the draft Building Safety Bill
Some wait to be regulated before they change, well now radical reform is coming to this industry and it better prepare
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Almost three quarters of cladding projects stalled by covid have restarted
Ongoing work has seen nearly half of buildings identified have ACM system removed or remediated
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Main contractor accused of ‘pocketing’ savings to cover Grenfell pricing mistake
Rydon’s bid alleged to have been £212k too low because of an ‘adding-up error’
