Grenfell Inquiry resumes with limited attendance
July 7, 2020
The Grenfell Inquiry resumed on Monday 6th July after chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick suspended the process due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Read More
Watch FIREX: Life after Grenfell – Tall Buildings and Regulatory Developments
June 8, 2020
Free Download: The Video Surveillance Report 2023 Discover the latest developments in the rapidly-evolving video surveillance sector by downloading the […] Read More
WATCH: FIREX Digital Week ‘Life after Grenfell’ webinar
May 26, 2020
In this webinar, experts including Andy Taylor from the ASFP and Colin Todd discussed the recent changes to regulations in the fire safety sector. Read More
Post-Grenfell regulation aims to transform fire safety in buildings
May 5, 2020
Nearly three years after the devastating Grenfell Tower fire, the Government has published its proposals for what it calls “the biggest change in building safety for a generation”. Ron Alalouff highlights the main features of the wide-ranging provisions. Read More
Budget 2020: £1 billion Building Safety Fund announced to tackle Grenfell-style cladding
March 11, 2020
The newly-appointed Chanceller, Rishi Sunak, has announced that extra funds will be made available from the Government to support the removal of combustible Grenfell-style cladding on tower blocks. Read More
Grenfell Tower: Government responds to Phase 1 report
January 21, 2020
A report, due to be published after the first phase of an inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, has heavily criticised the response of The London Fire Brigade (LFB) citing ‘serious shortcomings’ and ‘systemic failures’. Read More
The Grenfell legacy
December 19, 2019
Tracie Williams, Managing Director of Evident Software, details why responses to the Grenfell tragedy need to be better than similar catastrophes in the past. Read More
Fines for fire safety breaches have soared since Grenfell
October 1, 2019
A ground-breaking study also found that the most enforced part of the Fire Safety Order is Article 14, which relates to emergency routes and exits. Read More
More fire risk assessors could be prosecuted in a post-Grenfell world, leading lawyer warns
July 31, 2019
Fire safety professionals could be held accountable for fire safety breaches in the same way as building owners, according to an expert in fire safety law. Read More
Grenfell Inquiry must yield “bedrock change” – and soon: FSF chairman at FIREX 2019
July 5, 2019
The construction industry had “become complacent if not, in some cases, positively indifferent about fire safety” before Grenfell, the chairman […] Read More
3 changes to fire safety regulations that could prevent another Grenfell
July 3, 2019
More than two years on from Grenfell there’s much still to do to prevent a repeat of the worst residential fire in modern UK history. Tom Roche offers three recommendations for changes the government should introduce, among many others. Read More
HPL cladding tests finally planned two years after Grenfell – and five after previous failed test
June 25, 2019
The government has been criticised for focusing too narrowly on Grenfell-style cladding when other types of “untested”, potentially unsafe cladding […] Read More
After Grenfell: Jonathan O’Neill OBE on how austerity and policy “on the hoof” are hampering progress
June 19, 2019
FIREX 2019 kicked off with a forceful attack on the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 […] Read More
Grenfell anniversary: Have lessons been learned two years on?
June 14, 2019
Today marks the two-year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, which claimed 72 lives and exposed shameful complacency and shortcomings […] Read More
“The Fire Safety Order might need a judicial review”: Warren Spencer on the post-Grenfell landscape
May 3, 2019
Warren Spencer, managing director of Blackhurst Budd Solicitors, has defended or prosecuted over 190 cases under the Fire Safety Order […] Read More
Hackitt plan prescribes changes the fire community called for long before Grenfell: ASFP
January 10, 2019
Responding to the government’s pledge to implement Dame Judith Hackitt’s recommendations in full, ASFP CEO Niall Rowan said: “We strongly agreed with [Dame Hackitt’s] conclusions, many of which reflect what the fire community, including the ASFP, has been saying for some years.” Read More
