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Grenfell contractor admits team needed more design expertise

By 2020-07-22T17:12:00

Simon Lawrence of Rydon - Grenfell Inquiry Evidence - Thursday 16th July 2020 (1 2)

Former Rydon manager also quizzed on ‘cheap, incompetent subcontractors’ comments and claim one firm was ‘too good’ for the job

A senior staff member at the main contractor behind the Grenfell Tower refurbishment has accepted it lacked the ability to properly scrutinise design proposals for the project.

Simon Lawrence, who was contracts manager for Rydon for much of the refurbishment project, made the admission at the end of his fourth day of evidence to the inquiry into the 2017 fire at the west London block, which claimed 72 lives.

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