Grenfell inquiry: What we learnt from September’s evidence

By Jim Dunton 2020-10-02T05:00:00

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Focus was on Harley Facade’s lack of technical expertise, while Max Fordham, Osborne Berry and CEP Architectural Facades also had questions to answer

Harley Facades dominated September’s hearings of the inquiry into the flawed refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, which led to the fire that claimed 72 lives in 2017.

There were contrasting accounts of compliance checks on products used by the cladding specialist on Grenfell – and who was responsible. It also emerged that Harley’s project manager was the 25-year-old son of the boss, in his first such role, and that Harley had a financial motive to use the cassette version of Reynobond PE 55 aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding on the tower.

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