Grenfell Tower fire
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Sep 10, 2026
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Just before one in the morning on the 14th of June 2017, a fire started in a fridge freezer on the fourth floor of West London's Grenfell Tower.
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It burned for 60 hours.
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72 people died.
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Heavy materials, machinery, cranes, and deadlines exist everywhere.
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What changes is the system around the work.
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Who's accountable? What gets enforced? What gets documented? What gets rewarded? And what gets ignored? After Grenfell, the UK government asked Dame Judith Hackett to study what allowed a flawed building like that to exist.
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Her conclusion was not that one person had failed.
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The whole system had.
Eric RobertsGUEST
No, I don't agree.
Eric RobertsGUEST
No, you look at Grenfell.
Eric RobertsGUEST
I do.
Eric RobertsGUEST
And Grenfell, that was an...
Diego AlvesGUEST
Absolutely.
Eric RobertsGUEST
So that in a way was the derivative of this legislation.
Eric RobertsGUEST
You can understand why.
Eric RobertsGUEST
If you look at
Andrew DuffenHOST
Yeah.
Steve HumphreysHOST
You, you know, we're, we're talking a, a fair, fair few years now since the Grenfell disaster, but there's been other things since.
Steve HumphreysHOST
You know, Shirley Towers in Southampton, the premature collapse, the firefighters have lost their lives in 2022.
Steve HumphreysHOST
So all these things sort of cul- culminated in, I think Amendment 4 becoming more fire safety.
Andrew DuffenHOST
But yeah, I totally agree with you.
Andrew DuffenHOST
Part 4 was really overflown.
Andrew DuffenHOST
It's like Grenfell.
Steve HumphreysHOST
Yeah.
Mark GitsonGUEST
And there's been events that have taken place that has changed our mentality.
Mark GitsonGUEST
Unfortunately, you've just got to look at Grenfell when we are considering a risk.
Mark GitsonGUEST
We need to make sure at an early stage that the property is being built in accordance to building regulations, the UK standards.
Mark GitsonGUEST
It's got the correct backing.