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Penny-pinching and adversarial: construction industry’s ‘rotten culture’ faces Grenfell reckoning

Findings on 2017 fire at London tower block raise wide-ranging questions over prevailing attitudes and practices

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2024

‘Professional buck-passers’: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects

The ultimate responsibility for the tower’s safety lay with its architect, said the 1,700-page report, which highlighted a ‘widespread failure among the profession’. Why are so many architects now utterly detached from the realities of construction?

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2024

Grenfell inquiry: 12 key findings from damning report on deadly tower block fire

Architects, companies involved in the disastrous refubishment, and Kensington and Chelsea council to blame, report concludes

Evening Standard · Sep 4, 2024