What we learned this week: Grenfell Inquiry digest

Grenfell Tower toward the end of its ill-fated refurbishment

Source: Grenfell Tower Inquiry

Witnesses included consultants from QS Artelia and RBKC’s building control manager

This week saw the Grenfell Inquiry’s barristers wrap up evidence from the consultants who worked on the ill-fated refurbishment as well as from RBKC’s building control department.

Next week they will move on to hear from four members of the TMO team, which was the client on the upgrade that ended with the loss of 72 lives after a catastrophic fire in 2017.

On Monday the inquiry heard from John Allen, the manager responsible for overseeing the work of building control surveyors at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

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