Fire is a social equality issue. Amid fresh concerns over rogue landlords and dangerous overcrowding, why have calls for change gone unheeded for so long?
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Armed police interventions are unconstitutional and incapable of addressing housing and safety in the inner city.
If there were any doubts about the destruction caused by the fire on 14th June 2017, then Steve McQueen’s film reveals its true desolation.
A senior coroner in Rochdale has said of the toddler’s death that it should be a defining moment for social housing in the UK. Experts point out that we have been here before.
Inadequate building regulations led to combustible products being used on external walls.
What started out as an instinctive and private response to trauma has become a collective process of grieving and commemoration.
Designing a memorial that helps the community grieve and heal is no easy task.
New regulations, training systems and research are underway but there’s much still to be done.
How journalists with inside knowledge drove the narrative over building safety after the tragedy at Grenfell Tower.
Orders to fix serious defects, even up to ten years after completion, and to delay the occupation certificate developers need to sell apartments until they’re fixed, gives regulators real teeth.
Even landlords think involving social housing tenants is critical to running properties, but too often it doesn’t happen.
Emergency responders and military personnel need to think creatively – even imaginatively – to save lives under pressure. Analyzing the Grenfell Tower Fire in London reveals useful lessons.
The public inquiry into Grenfell makes its first report – but those responsible for the circumstances leading up to the fire are yet to face the consequences.
It will take time to digest the details of the 830-plus page report from phase one of the inquiry, but there are clear improvements to be made.
Ensuring a building will be safe against fire requires careful consideration from not only fire engineers, but also from builders, architects and building owners.
Grenfell Tower fire is the kind of tragedy that changes the built environment forever, through new building rules and safety measures.
Estimated costs for Victoria alone range from hundreds of millions to as much as $1.6 billion If work to rectify buildings fitted with combustible cladding isn’t well handled.
Residents were blogging about the tower block’s safety issues well before the fire, but there were few reporters around to pick up on the story.
Previous laws gave tenants very little protection – but now landlords could face court if they don’t keep their properties in good repair.
Police have to analyse over 31m documents, 2,500 pieces of evidence and 2,332 witness statements. This makes Grenfell the biggest and most complex corporate manslaughter case ever brought.
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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Journalism, Middlesex University
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Reader in Journalism, City, University of London
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Postdoctoral research associate, King's College London
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Research Associate, University of Sheffield
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Director, Glowpear, Board member, ISDRS, Vice President, AHA and Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, RMIT University
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