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New Grenfell inquiry expert ‘has links to cladding firm’

17 Jan 2020

BENITA MEHRA, who was recently appointed to the inquiry’s second phase, has links to Arconic, the US company that made the aluminium composite material (ACM) panels that were on Grenfell.

More private blocks have combustible cladding

17 Jan 2020

THE LATEST statistics from the Home Office also revealed that only 23 of 197 high rises have ‘solved [the] risk’ from having had combustible cladding.

Latest fire response statistics released

17 Jan 2020

THE HOME Office data showed an 11 second increase in response times to primary fires and a 32 second increase in response times to secondary fires year to year.

Government questioned over Lakanal response

17 Jan 2020

IN PARLIAMENT, Housing Minister Esther McVey was questioned by Labour MP Steve Reed about the government’s response to the Lakanal House fire in 2009.

Student flats provider warned over fire safety

17 Jan 2020

STRUCTURED HOUSE Group (SHG) was given a ‘severe’ warning after it allowed hundreds of students to move into unlicensed flats ‘before fire safety tests could be carried out’.

HMICFRS calls for ‘significant’ FRS reforms

16 Jan 2020

HER MAJESTY’S Chief Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has released its first annual assessment of fire and rescue services (FRSs), and has called for ‘significant reforms’.

Modular builders moving from timber to steel

16 Jan 2020

HOUSING ASSOCIATION Swan has become the ‘latest’ of a series of ‘leading exponents’ of modular housebuilding to ‘ditch’ cross laminated timber (CIT) for steel frames after the combustibles ban.

NFCC responds to HMICFRS report

16 Jan 2020

THE NATIONAL Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) stated that the first annual assessment of English fire and rescue services (FRSs) features findings that ‘require a joined-up approach’.

Chief FRS inspector criticises cladding progress

16 Jan 2020

SIR THOMAS Winsor, chief fire and rescue inspector for Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) was ‘alarmed’ at the number of combustibly clad buildings.

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