At ev’ry word a reputation dies Future historians may well look back on the decades at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st as the Cover-Up Years. The decades when wrong-doing – whether deliberate or simply people doing a bad job – was hidden, obfuscated, …
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Rachel Davidson has been appointed to the new position of director of specialist knowledge at the Building Engineering Services Association. Davidson will have a particular focus on the Building Safety Act and its implications for BESA members and the wider specialist building services sector. “The new Act is just starting …
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The inquiry into the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower has heard from a former employee that foam insulation manufacturer Celotex misled the industry over the fire tests on its insulation board used in the tower block. The inquiry into the fire in June 2017, which killed 72 people, heard this …
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