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Keep up to dateBy Tom Lowe2021-03-02T12:12:00
Hearing sees emails from BRE consultant saying desktop studies of Grenfell insulation could be ‘huge source of income’
The BRE received a “significant source of revenue” by producing desktop studies for combustible Kingspan insulation used on Grenfell Tower, the inquiry has heard.
Tom Lennon, a consultant at BRE, a testing body, claimed the studies could be a “huge source of income” for the BRE in a 2015 email.
Desktop studies take the results of full-scale fire tests on cladding systems and model variations to the specification to demonstrate equivalent fire performance.
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