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A NATIONAL building-control body issued a certificate for the flammable insulation used on Grenfell Tower by copying the manufacturer’s “intentional, deliberate and dishonest” description.
The Local Authority Building Control (LABC) lifted word-for-word the insulation’s description suggested by Celotex’s assistant product manager Jonathan Roper in June 2014, the ongoing inquiry into the Grenfell fire heard yesterday.
The description had wrongly stated that the Celotex’s Rs5000 combustible insulation was safe for high-rise blocks.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people