The director of the cladding subcontractor that worked on the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower has branded building safety legislation “complicated” and blamed it for sowing “widespread confusion” within construction about…

Specialist cladding subcontractor Harley Curtain Wall had no employees with a completed qualification in façade engineering at the time it worked on the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.

Rydon faced pressure to return a tender for the Grenfell Tower refurbishment because it “struggled” to “drum up any interest” from cladding contractors, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard.

A site manager working on the internals at Grenfell Tower assumed that a paper and foil material installed by subcontractors between window units and internal sills in the building was…

Rydon’s refurbishment director Stephen Blake had “personal and private” access to the top decision-makers at the Kensington & Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO) in charge of the Grenfell Tower refurbishment…

Rydon refurbishment director Stephen Blake denied that the firm simply “offloaded” its contractual obligations for the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, when he appeared before the Grenfell Tower Inquiry on 28 July.

Rydon employees working in three essential roles on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment were all newly promoted, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard. Leading counsel to the Inquiry, Richard Millett QC,…

The Rydon manager who took over the site of the Grenfell Tower refurbishment in 2015 had never heard of insulation being described as “combustible” or “non-combustible”, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry…

The Rydon project manager working on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment hadn’t heard of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding, the Inquiry into the 2017 fire has heard. Simon O’Connor also said…

The Grenfell Tower refurbishment was a “poorly performing site” in 2015, which main contractor Rydon’s contracts manager blamed on “cheap, incompetent subcontractors”, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has heard. Simon Lawrence,…

There is no evidence that Rydon employees working on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment responded to an email seeking clarification on cladding fire safety.

Rydon did not appoint a fire safety adviser on the Grenfell Tower project despite promises to do so, the Inquiry into the tragic 2017 blaze has heard.

Rydon, the main contractor on the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, was “reliant on others” when it came to ensuring the suitability of materials used on the façade, the inquiry into…

An “aspirational” target to keep heat loss from Grenfell Tower to a minimum resulted in the selection of the combustible Celotex RS5000 insulation for the building, the Grenfell Tower Inquiry…

A fire safety consultant “ignored” an email containing proposals to clad Grenfell Tower with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding because he was not specifically asked to look at it, the…

Plans put forward in 2012 to clad Grenfell Tower presented no “particular issues or problems” when it came to fire safety, according to a fire safety expert who worked on…

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry is working towards resuming hearings in London on 6 July following a easing of the coronavirus lockdown. It said that following a consultation with core participants…