GRENFELL A STORY OF MULTIPLE FAILINGS
I’ve covered the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire for more than four years. Talking about my work, people’s first question is almost always, so what went wrong? They’re hoping for a simple answer, a bad decision or a secret meeting. I always seem to disappoint them.
Grenfell isn’t the story of one man or one meeting. Instead the inquiry has uncovered profound failings across the construction industry. Six layers of protection were meant to sit between the residents of Grenfell Tower and a catastrophic fire, and there were failures in each. This is what the inquiry has heard.
THE DESIGNERS
It was a refurbishment which placed combustible materials on the outside of Grenfell Tower. Insulation was meant to improve the energy efficiency of
