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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.
Architects, certifiers and engineers who work as consultants to builders are on notice about potential liability for the use of flammable cladding, but governments are also culpable for their actions.
The risks of combustible cladding on high-rise buildings have long been known. And audits have identified hundreds of Australian buildings with this cladding. Delay in replacing it is inexcusable.
As more and more Australians live and work in high-rise buildings, their responsibilities and roles in ensuring all occupants’ safety must not be neglected.
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Adjunct professor of architecture, University of Adelaide
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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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Professor of Leadership and Management, Edge Hill University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Politics, Aston University
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of Studies for Construction Law, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor in Spatial Planning and Government, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Public Management, University of Glasgow
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, City, University of London
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Director of the Centre for Critical and Major Incident Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer, University of Leeds
