Design-and-build helping industry ‘sleepwalk towards serious problems,’ Grenfell Inquiry told

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2020-11-05T07:04:00

Former RIBA president also criticises sloppy attitude, education and failure to learn from previous fires

The UK construction industry has been “sleep-walking towards serious problems” and must now take a long and careful look at itself, the Grenfell Inquiry has been told.

Paul Hyett, a former RIBA president and principal of architect HKS, made the plea for reform yesterday, in the final moments of the inquiry’s first module which began in January.

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