CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL

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CONSTRUCTION DEFECT JOURNAL - ISSUE 242749 - MONDAY, MAY 12, 2025

Grenfell Fire Probe Faults Construction Industry Practices

Smoke on black background

A faulty refrigerator in a 4th floor kitchen sparked the early morning fire, which escaped through a substandard window and engulfed the building in a few hours.

November 28, 2022
Peter Reina - Engineering News-Record

"Incompetence and poor practices in the construction industry" and among others led to the June 2017 fire at London's Grenfell residential high-rise building, causing 72 deaths, according to the lead counsel for the public inquiry that ended Nov. 10.

Reprinted courtesy of Peter Reina, Engineering News-Record

Mr. Reina may be contacted at reina@btinternet.com

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