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Grenfell digest: What we learnt from the BRE this week

By 2021-02-27T07:00:00

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Hearings focused on testing body’s role in certifying combustible building materials used on Grenfell tower as safe

“It was a very busy place” was how Philip Clark, former burn hall manager at the Building Research Establishment (BRE), described his workplace when challenged at the Grenfell Inquiry this week about a string of errors made during fire testing.

“We could have 10 people in on any given day,” he said, adding: “It wasn’t the position that we were there every single minute checking everything that the client did minute to minute.”

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