News Grenfell Inquiry: ‘Limited’ pool of candidates for chief construction adviser role Former UK chief construction adviser Paul Morrell says the number of candidates fit for the new role recommended by the Grenfell Inquiry is “very limited”.
News LABC responds to Grenfell Inquiry’s criticism The Local Authority Building Control (LABC) has responded to the Grenfell Inquiry’s final report published yesterday (4 September).
News Government commits to bar Grenfell firms from public sector contracts The Prime Minister has pledged to exclude the companies criticised in the final report of the Grenfell Inquiry from public sector contracts.
News Grenfell manufacturers respond to the inquiry’s report Arconic, Celotex and Kingspan have issued statements in response to the Grenfell Inquiry’s final report which heavily criticises them.
News ‘All professionals should familiarise with the recommendations’: construction reacts to Grenfell report A round-up of industry reactions to the Grenfell Inquiry final report.
News Grenfell Inquiry calls for new chief construction adviser The Grenfell Inquiry has recommended bringing back the role of chief construction adviser to flag concerns about building regulations and the wider industry.
News Grenfell Inquiry: ‘Rydon bears considerable responsibility for the fire’ The Grenfell Inquiry has blamed Rydon as one of the companies that “bears considerable responsibility” for the fire in the residential block that killed 72 people on 14 June 2017.
News The companies blamed for the Grenfell disaster The Grenfell Inquiry has published today (4 September) its second and final report into the fire in the residential tower that killed 72 people on 14 June 2017.
News Grenfell ‘culmination of decades of failure’ by government and construction The Grenfell Tower Inquiry has concluded that the disaster “was the culmination of decades of failure by central government and other bodies in positions of responsibility in the construction industry”.
News Grenfell Inquiry: what are the recommendations? A summary of the recommendations included in the final Grenfell Inquiry report published on 4 September.
News Grenfell Inquiry report publication delayed again The Grenfell Inquiry has said that the report into the fire won’t be published before the seventh anniversary of the tragedy as it was planned.
News Grenfell report publication delayed again The Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report will not be published before April 2024, the Inquiry has said in an update.
News Grenfell final report publication delayed until 2024 The publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report will likely not be published before the end of the year as expected.
News Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Construction’s ‘long run-up of incompetence’ The lead counsel to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, Richard Millett QC, has accused the construction industry of a “long run-up of incompetence” prior to the Grenfell Tower disaster.
News Grenfell Tower Inquiry reviews 320,000 documents The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is dealing with a total of more than 320,000 documents, it has revealed.
News Grenfell Tower Inquiry hearings come to an end The four-year process of hearing evidence for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has come to an end this week.
News Grenfell: Government had ‘false understanding’ that fire safety regime was working The government had a ‘false understanding’ that the fire safety regime was working as it should in advance of the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster.
News Grenfell: Five things that have changed five years on (and some that haven’t) It’s now five years since 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower disaster, on 14 June 2017. What has changed?
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