Grenfell Tower: A lesson in how not to manage a project

By Graham Watts2020-11-11T06:00:00

What we have heard has been a long saga of incompetence, says Graham Watts

In Building a Safer Future, Dame Judith Hackitt took an axe to the diseased body of the UK construction industry long before a word of evidence relevant to construction was spoken at the Grenfell Tower public inquiry. It was a risk, because anything she recommended could be countermanded by the outcome of Sir Martin Moore-Bick’s deliberations. That remains the case but, having listened to evidence from many of the client and industry players over the past 16 weeks (apart from those that have hidden behind legal reasons not to speak before the inquiry), we might conclude that Hackitt’s hatchet was wielded more leniently than the industry deserved.

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