The road to Grenfell: A disaster they knew would happen
As a Specialist Roofing & Cladding Consultant Mike Fox has over 30 years’ of experience in the construction industry. Now Director of MAF Associates which launched in 2015, the business has grown rapidly in the past 18 months due to thousands of buildings requiring full external building inspections as a result of the Grenfell Tower disaster. Here, he offers his take on the revelations that continue to come out of the Grenfell Inquiry, and explains his belief that the tragic event was an inevitable consequence of a damaged industry culture.
Listening to coverage of the Grenfell Inquiry on the news, day by day, it would be easy to believe that it was some huge conspiracy and, to some extent, you would be right. The use of flammable cladding was effectively hidden in plain sight, but the fact is that its manufacturers were doing nothing technically illegal at the time and, more importantly for potential whistleblowers, they m