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BRE staff may never have received impartiality training, Grenfell inquiry hears
Testing house’s former managing director admits lack of formal training regime was a ‘weakness’
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Government published ‘confusing’ fire safety guidance, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Document published in 2002 appeared to equate British standards with tougher European standards
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Government may have understood 20 years ago Grenfell-style cladding was not suitable for high-rises, BRE says
Tests carried out in 2002 flagged concerns about material, Grenfell Inquiry told
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Civil servant’s reply to fire safety query was typically non-committal, Grenfell inquiry hears
Brian Martin had been responding to query on “poorly drafted” clause in official guidance which appeared to permit use of combustible cladding in tall buildings
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BRE experts failed to clarify confusing building regs, Grenfell Inquiry told
Sarah Colwell ignored industry group’s attempts to chase the matter for 16 months
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Government shown ACM cladding test results which ‘shocked’ experts 16 years before Grenfell, inquiry hears
Fire test in 2001 had to be extinguished after five minutes after flames reached 65ft high
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Government asked experts to ‘step away’ from investigation into deadly cladding fire
Grenfell Inquiry hears BRE team was asked to stop investigation into Lakanal House fire after less than a month
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Government used fire safety group to rubber stamp flawed regulations, Grenfell inquiry hears
BRE group was given ‘contractual requirement’ to not make any policy recommendations in response to fires
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Senior civil servant failed to update safety guidance despite ‘major fire’ warning
‘Confusing’ building regulations not clarified after blaze issues raised in 2014 meeting
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Review body raised ‘serious concerns’ about BRE five years before Grenfell fire, inquiry hears
‘Damning’ report found lessons had not been learned at testing house despite repeated criticisms from government appointed inspection body
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Government provided building control body with a ‘pre-prepared script’ amid media scrutiny after Grenfell fire
Official wrote to the NHBC asking it to rebut claims that tower’s combustible cladding panels complied with building regulations
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Building control body approved combustible materials because scrutinising them was too ‘time consuming’
NHBC fire engineer admits the approach was a ‘dangerous mistake’
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Kingspan threatened cladding firm with legal action if it revealed results of failed fire test
Grenfell Inquiry hears the 2008 test had failed within 15 minutes with ‘flames coming off the top of the test rig’
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Pay into fund or face ban, Gove tells cladding manufacturers
Housing secretary says cladding and insultation sector must contribute ‘significant portion’ of remediation costs
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Government slaps Help to Buy ban on Rydon Homes because of sister firm’s work at Grenfell
Michael Gove puts others on notice they are in his sights as part of crackdown on companies failing to fix ‘building safety crisis’
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Building control body allowed use of Kingspan insulation despite describing its certificate as ‘garbage’
National House Building Council warned twice that product was ‘accident waiting to happen’
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NHBC denies allowing use of Kingspan insulation to avoid ‘barrage of claims’ from customers
Grenfell Inquiry counsel accuses building control body of being “captured” by Kingspan and “used by them as their poodles”
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Building control body denies it took a ‘benevolent’ attitude towards Kingspan because it was in financial trouble
Grenfell Inquiry shown emails in which LABC staff said Kingspan deal would ‘save this failing company’
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Building control body joked about ‘burning’ issue of misleading Kingspan certificate, Grenfell inquiry hears
Comment followed new tests showing insulation had continued to burn for 20 minutes after end of test