excerpt from that report: " It confirmed that the aluminium cladding panels and the insulation foam were combustible and noted that some of the insulation did not have a manufacturer’s logo on it."
From that , it sounds as if even the material they were supposed to use , was not.
B.E.
You are judged not by what you know, but by what you can do.
Wow, so they actually did use rubberized flashing in the 150mm gaps between the vertical sides of the windows and the existing concrete window opening. This is what I originally thought and then considered it far too egregious. I eventually found an intumescent flashing that looked quite similar. It will be interesting to see what was approved by the RBKC Planning & Building Control staff and what was supplied in the field. Was there really any difference in cost between using custom sized windows vs the extra labor of having to cobble together a gap filling solution with standard factory sized window units or was it all project schedule motivated?
I've noted on a couple of other sites that the professional architectural association has been very quiet. Would have thought with the lack of involvement and large number of deaths that they would have been 'front and centre', and also that criminal charges have been slow.
Incompetent government management employees making decisions on items beyond their understanding. Contrary to the article, cutting red tape is not the issue and only shifts the focus away from the real issue.
Incompetent government management employees making decisions on items beyond their understanding. Contrary to the article, cutting red tape is not the issue and only shifts the focus away from the real issue.
No regulations that require fire brigades to be trained adequately and have the proper equipment?
Contractor cost cutting and greed?
Bureaucrats that fail to enforce regulations?
Failure of elected officials to adopt recommended national building codes that help state and local jurisdictions enhance the public's social and economic well-being by coordinating efforts across geographic boundaries to make technical findings, improve performance criteria and promote standards to ensure safe, durable, accessible and efficient buildings?
There was an architectural firm whose title block appeared on the drawings linked above. Studio E LLC. No idea of their role in the project beyond producing those drawings.
There was a lot of discussion in this thread about the role the insulation played, and whether it was a bigger contributor to the fire than the composite panels.
The number of successful prosecutions for corporate manslaughter in the UK is painfully small, and most seem to result in fines rather than imprisonment of company directors:
The Grenfell incident obviously carries a lot of political and emotional weight, and there will be a strong desire to see a successful prosecution of those responsible. It is (possibly) worthy of note that the only prosecution brought against a public body - part of the NHS - resulted in acquittal on the direction of the judge. It will be interesting to see if Kensington and Chelsea Council are brought to trial and whether the prosecution leads to conviction or acquittal.
