Clarification – time and space.
Safety expert, Dr Jonathan Evans, is demanding ministers disclose whether ‘highly dangerous’ cladding that failed fire tests commissioned by the Government in 2002, was used at Grenfell Tower.
In September 2021, the BBC uncovered details of cladding products that failed safety tests 13 years prior to the blaze that killed 72 people.
Dr Jonathan Evans (who was also named in IFSEC Global’s list of top influencers in fire safety in 2021) argues that there is a strong suggestion that among those products tested was the aluminium and plastic cladding that allowed for the rapid spread of fire at Grenfell in 2017.
The Government says the planned update to the Fire Safety Order 2005, the Fire Safety Act 2021, set to become law in early 2022, alongside the Building Safety Bill, will “ensure people feel safe in their homes, and a tragedy like the Grenfell Tower fire never happens again” in England.
Industry expert Dr Jonathan Evans, a member of the British Standard 8414 committee set up to review the standards of testing, has written to Housing Secretary, Michael Gove, requesting confirmation of his deductions. Read more….
