All Grenfell inquiry articles
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: What we learned this week
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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Contractor’s site managers assumed Grenfell’s window insulation was safe
Main contractor’s senior site officials say they did not know combustible material was being used to fill gaps
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Rydon director ‘haunted’ by lack of challenge to Grenfell cladding design
Emotional boss believed design process had been correctly followed
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Opinion
In experts we trust?
Eleanor Jolliffe examines what it means to be a professional and what the sorry evidence from the Grenfell Inquiry might teach us
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Rydon was asked for ‘quick and dirty’ costing ahead of Grenfell Tower’s refurbishment
Client’s agent emailed firm to find out what price of work might be
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Grenfell contractor was ‘thorough’ checking work, manager says
Main contractor’s final site manager was drafted in after project manager and contracts manager quit
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Features
The Grenfell Inquiry transcripts should be compulsory reading
We owe it to those who died to learn the lessons from the disaster now
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Grenfell Inquiry digest: Rydon’s evidence so far
What we’ve learnt from the refurbishment project’s main contractor
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Grenfell contractor’s project manager quit over work pressures
Rydon’s on-site boss left company 14 months into project as schedule began to slip
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Grenfell contractor admits team needed more design expertise
Former Rydon manager also quizzed on ‘cheap, incompetent subcontractors’ comments and claim one firm was ‘too good’ for the job
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News
Grenfell contractor ‘didn’t know’ cladding options had different fire ratings
Rydon unaware Reynobond cassettes eventually used on tower had ‘significantly worse’ test results than fixed-panel counterparts
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Grenfell façade designer marked drawings ‘approved for construction’ when they weren’t
Studio E’s as-built Grenfell drawings ‘had wrong date and materials’
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News
Arb will tell schools to put Building Safety Bill on syllabus
Meanwhile RIBA says proposed legislation does not go far enough
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Grenfell contractor accused of ‘pocketing’ savings to cover pricing mistake
Rydon’s bid alleged to have been £212k too low because of ‘adding-up error’
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News
Grenfell contractor ‘did not check Studio E’s expertise’
’We wouldn’t have asked that question,’ contracts manager tells inquiry
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We relied on others to check subcontractors’ work on Grenfell, admits main contractor
Contract manager is first Rydon employee to give evidence at inquiry into 2017 fire
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News
Post-Grenfell reforms might not come into force until 2024, advisor warns
Government set to introduce promised Building Safety Bill shortly
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Grenfell Inquiry shown two years of blanks in Studio E records
Architect admits firm’s failure to update documents-issued register ‘not good practice’
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News
Grenfell cladding posed no ‘particular issues’ in 2012, inquiry hears
Fire engineer provides first evidence to Grenfell inquiry after three-month covid suspension
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Studio E: Anatomy of the death of a practice
How an award-winning architect collapsed into liquidation
