would you be prepared to name them? no. and warnings from housing managers about poor standards and who should pay to fix the faults echo those from today s crisis. those experts built these buildings that have now been shown to warrant £33 million worth of repairs. that s £33 million worth of a professional mistake, and the cost of that has to be met because the builder went bankrupt and the professionals responsible can t be nailed for it. the cost of that has to be found by ratepayers and rent payers. industry experts have warned that the construction workforce has become used to marking its own homework. we ve lost the independent quality checks on construction sites that were always part and parcel of the process. so, for example, architects and engineers who used to go on site regularly to supervise the work, they rarely go on site now. so do you think the system is broken then? i think the system was broken in 2017. i think we re gradually
on or around existing blocks should be considered very carefully in relation to a serious fire. do you think that there are now systems being used which represent a fire risk? frankly, yes. would you be prepared to name them? no. and warnings from housing managers about poor standards and who should pay to fix the faults echo those from today s crisis. those experts built these buildings that have now been shown to warrant £33 million worth of repairs. that s £33 million worth of a professional mistake, and the cost of that has to be met because the builder went bankrupt and the professionals responsible can t be nailed for it. the cost of that has to be found by ratepayers and rent payers. industry experts have warned that the construction workforce has become used to marking its own homework. we ve lost the independent quality checks on construction sites that were always part
20, 30 years in the making? i think it goes back into the 705 and the 80s, actually in terms of the whole deregulation bandwagon. we were having meetings with government in 2009, 2010 with our concerns about the quality issues on on building sites. so it s been there for a very long time. rewind to 1984. tower blocks hundreds of feet high are being tower blocks hundreds of feet high are being recovered in new materials. this is a bbc documentary called the great british housing disaster. structural engineers warned of the possible fire risk from cladding even back then. i think it s absolutely essential that anything that is being placed on or around existing blocks should be considered very carefully in relation to a serious fire. do you think that there are now systems being used which represent a fire risk? frankly, yes. would you be prepared to name them? no. and warnings from housing managers
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