All ACM articles
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好色先生TVSenior civil servant admits missing opportunities to address risks of ACM cladding
Brian Martin tells Grenfell Inquiry he聽鈥榮truggles to understand鈥櫬爓hy he did not take action
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好色先生TVCivil servant knew there was a 鈥榗lear risk鈥� of a major ACM fire three years before Grenfell, inquiry hears
Brian Martin failed to warn fire and rescue chief and instead 鈥榣ulled鈥� him into false sense of security
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好色先生TVSenior civil servant 鈥榝orgot鈥� to clarify ambiguous fire safety guidance, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Brian Martin also admitted he 鈥榗ompletely underestimated鈥櫬爃azard posed by deadly ACM panels
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好色先生TVDisastrous test failure on ACM cladding was 鈥榝orgotten鈥�, Grenfell inquiry hears
Senior civil servant responsible for building fire safety says 2001 tests 鈥渏ust got missed鈥�
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好色先生TVFormer senior civil servant鈥檚 鈥榙eep regret鈥� building regs were not revised following cladding warnings
Grenfell Inquiry told that fears over widespread use of ACM panels 鈥榮hould have been gripped better鈥�
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好色先生TVLead fire safety official described ACM panels as going 鈥榳hoosh!鈥� when ignited, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Email sent by Brian Martin 18 months before Grenfell fire
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好色先生TV鈥婼enior official denies government 鈥榗overed up鈥� cladding dangers
Disastrous 2001 test results on cladding panels used on Grenfell were not made public until this year
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好色先生TVBRE manager did not tell minister that ACM had failed fire test 16 years before Grenfell
Debbie Smith denied reaching agreement with senior official to withhold key details about cladding from minister in meeting three days after fire, inquiry hears
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好色先生TVCivil servant鈥檚 reply to fire safety query was typically non-committal, Grenfell inquiry hears
Brian Martin had been responding to query on 鈥減oorly drafted鈥� clause in official guidance which appeared to permit use of combustible cladding in tall buildings
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好色先生TVGovernment shown ACM cladding test results which 鈥榮hocked鈥� experts 16 years before Grenfell, inquiry hears
Fire test in 2001 had to be extinguished after five minutes after flames reached 65ft high
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好色先生TVArconic investors given all clear by US court to take legal action after Grenfell fire
Shareholders claim firm knew its cladding was dangerous but used it on high rise projects anyway
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好色先生TVBallymore to spend 拢20m on fire safety repairs
Developer will not confirm if amount will cover all remediation costs
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好色先生TVACM 鈥榥ot involved鈥� in Ballymore block blaze
Developer claims Grenfell-style combustible cladding played no part in major fire at New Providence Wharf development
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好色先生TVAround 10% of buildings with ACM yet to start remediation
Four more buildings also discovered to contain the unsafe material
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好色先生TVBBA certificate for Grenfell ACM was based off information on supplier鈥檚 website, inquiry hears
Certifying body鈥檚 project manager admits never seeing crucial test data before issuing Arconic with renewal of flawed document
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好色先生TVArconic stopped offering French customers Grenfell cladding because of fire safety concerns, inquiry hears
But UK sales manager says he was never given the instruction
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好色先生TVGrenfell inquiry round-up: What we learnt from Kingspan and Arconic
Details of combustible materials were kept under wraps, inquiry hears in first week back after two-month pause
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好色先生TVGrenfell inquiry: Arconic did not withdraw combustible cladding because of 鈥榗ost implications鈥�
Sales manager made admission in secretly recorded phone call in the days after the fire
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好色先生TVCladding remediation work inches forward
Five more buildings have put plans in place to remove their ACM
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好色先生TVEngland still has 17 occupied high-rise buildings with no plan to remove ACM cladding
Cladding remediation works have also slowed in September despite lifting of lockdown restrictions