Evacuate, decant or prohibit?
Over 13,000 residents have been forced from their homes due to fire and structural safety concerns in the 8 years since the Grenfell Tower tragedy!
Over 13,000 residents have been forced from their homes due to fire and structural safety concerns in the 8 years since the Grenfell Tower tragedy!
This month’s Lunch & Learn with Su Butcher – industry veteran, communicator, and all-around straight-talker – dug deep into a topic gaining increasing urgency across the built environment: the Golden Thread of building information.
Matt Hodges-Long, Founder of TrackMyRisks / Building Safety Register and Steve Bunce Building Safety Case Manager, Lewisham Council discussed challenges in ‘managing building safety information at scale’
Our CEO Matt Hodges-Long was asked by LBC to write a short opinion piece tracking the 7 years from Grenfell Tower to the Spectrum Building and to give some thoughts on the role of Government in the Building Safety Crisis.
Our CEO Matt Hodges-Long explains that fire safety issues in mid-rise blocks were overlooked due to the post-Grenfell focus on cladding problems inhigh-rise buildings.
When Sky News approached us for comment on the prohibition (forced evacuation) of the Skyline Chambers building in Manchester it was a good opportunity to share our ongoing research into prohibitions…
50 months post-Grenfell we are living on borrowed time with Building Safety. Immediate solutions to stabilise the situation are long overdue.