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There's quite a lot to unpack with this story, but let's start with inquiry chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick's recommendations in his report in October 2019. Having heard months of evidence
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There's been lots of talk about how much better the Australian state of Victoria has been doing at dealing with its cladding crisis, so for this month's issue I spoke
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Think this is worth unpacking a bit. What the (majority Tory) committee has accused MHCLG of is a “deplorable... cycle of policy invention, abandonment and reinvention".It's really a broadside at
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Lunchtime update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:- Govt officials warned about use of Kingspan insulation on high rises in 2014- Kingspan accused of "lying" to them about testing which had
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Right so, today at the inquiry we filled in a new piece of the puzzle surrounding the government's failure to change regulations in time to stop Grenfell https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/key-government-official-warned-over-use-of-ki
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Having reflected on all this, I have a couple more observations I want to make.https://twitter.com/PeteApps/status/1329800554177044480 1. I would challenge anyone who believes in the sanctity of deregulated free markets to
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It is basically impossible to have watched the Grenfell Tower Inquiry and not feel that the construction industry is rotten from top to bottom: architects, contractors, product manufacturers, certifiers. The
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Putting to one side whether or not it's really ok for a minister to chastise leaseholders in buildings with dangerous cladding for being sarcastic, the government's testing regime does not
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Potentially controversial housing opinion: I am not at all convinced of the need to massively insulate homes as a means of combating climate change. Surely the objective should be to
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But then it changed the chemical composition of the product in 2006 and retested. This time the result - in the words of a Kingspan employee - was "a raging
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We've just heard a devastating, detailed account from lawyers for the bereaved of Grenfell Tower alleging that giant cladding and insulation companies were engaged in "sinister" attempts to undermine building
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Having had a bit of time to reflect on this I think it's worth running through the role of Arconic in a bit more detail. They are the huge Pennsylvania
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