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Jason Beer, QC, speaking on behalf of the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, essentially presented the Conservative government’s defence. He sought to portray housing ministers as innocent victims of the construction industry and local officials. ....
MMC-GAMUDA, the underground works package contractor for the MRT Putrajaya Line, is ending the year on a high after sweeping two prestigious international awards for tunnelling excellence, with a possibility of scooping a third one on Wednesday. ....
Sun 9 May 2021 01.00 EDT A comment piece about the Grenfell Tower inquiry referred to the Building Research Establishment as the British Research Establishment, and to Kingspan as “the company that provided much of the Grenfell insulation”. Kingspan says its K15 product constituted around 5% of the insulation used in the building’s flammable cladding system (Grenfell is still giving up its secrets and they retain the power to shock, 2 May, page 51). The Coen brothers’ film Inside Llewyn Davis was misnamed Other recently amended articles include: ....
The government’s obstinacy is unfathomable. It is also unsurprising. For, as the Grenfell Tower inquiry has exposed, the state – at local and national level – has continually colluded with business to the detriment of ordinary people. Private companies continued to sell materials they knew could kill. Governments and regulators refused to act. Locals who spoke up were damned as “troublemakers”. Arconic, the company that made the Grenfell Tower cladding, knew it to be a firetrap. The firm created more fire-resistant cladding to use in countries with tighter regulations, such as Germany, but pushed the dangerous version in Britain. It allowed it to be used in a form called a “cassette” (in which panels are bent into a box shape to hide the fixings) even though it recognised as far back as 2004 that this could be lethal in a fire. The cassette system was used on Grenfell Tower. An internal memo from 2007 forecast that a fire in buildings with such cladding could result ....