A manager at Kingspan, which manufactured the Kooltherm K15 insulation used on Grenfell Tower, has admitted that dismissing a contractor’s concerns about the material’s suitability for use in buildings above 18m with an expletive in an internal email was “totally unprofessional”.

A former employee of Celotex has described how she was “shocked” to discover “tweaks” to a second fire safety test of the firm’s RS5000 insulation product, after a first had…

A former employee of Kingspan became “embroiled in a deliberate and calculated deceit” over the suitability of the firm’s K15 phenolic insulation for use on high-rise buildings, the Grenfell Tower…

The way Kingspan marketed the Kooltherm K15 insulation that was used on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment was “misleading” and was based on a 2005 fire test for years, despite the…

With module two of the second phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry getting underway, Paul Morrell warns why looking to construction’s ‘good old days’ won’t provide the answer to fixing…

A former Celotex employee was aware that his colleagues were attempting to create a “misleading” test report for the combustible Celotex RS5000 insulation used in Grenfell Tower, as part of…

Architect Studio E’s confidence in the combustible Celotex polyisocyanurate insulation specified to be used behind the ACM rainscreen cladding panels during the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower represented a “major failure”,…

The former head of marketing at Celotex has accepted that the literature produced to market the combustible RS5000 insulation used in Grenfell Tower was “misleading” but denied that it was deliberately so.

The former head of marketing at Celotex has denied knowledge of a key change made to a testing rig that allowed its combustible RS5000 insulation product to pass a BS…

Action taken by Celotex at the time it was developing a marketing strategy for a new form of panel insulation that eventually ended up being used in the Grenfell Tower refurbishment were “completely unethical” the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.

Pressure on insulation manufacturer Celotex to grow its profits and compete with rival Kingspan led it to develop the combustible PIR insulation product, RS5000, that was used on Grenfell Tower,…

Claims made in marketing materials for Celotex RS5000 insulation of the type used in Grenfell Tower that it was suitable for buildings above 18m in height were “thoroughly misleading”, the…

The ‘class 0’ classification indicating that materials adequately resist the spread of fire over the external walls of high-rise buildings “degraded with time”, an expert witness has told the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

The manufacturers of the combustible cladding and insulation used on Grenfell Tower “exploited ignorance” around terms such as “class 0” and “limited combustibility” within the construction industry for their own commercial gain, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.

The manufacturers of the cladding and insulation products used on the exterior wall of Grenfell Tower during its refurbishment were “untroubled by the safety of their products”, the legal counsel…

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is to investigate the way construction products are manufactured, tested and sold from today (5 November). The Inquiry completed module 1 of the second phase of…

The design and build process is creating “disorder” within the construction industry, according to an expert witness at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry will continue its hearings during the latest coronavirus lockdown in England, its chairman has confirmed. Before proceedings started yesterday (2 November), Sir Martin Moore-Bick told attendees…