183 BRE, CWCT and UKAS

Published: Feb. 11, 2022, 5:50 p.m.

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This week, David Crowder, former Head of Investigation at the Building Research Establishment, told the Inquiry that an investigation into the Lakanal House fire in 2009, was shut down by the Government although it was \\u201cfundamentally incomplete\\u201d. David Metcalf, the Director of Window and Cladding Technology, explained how confusion over the use of the word \\u201cfiller\\u201d in building regulation guidance created a \\u201chuge problem\\u201d, with insulation materials not meeting standards of limited combustibility. The Inquiry also heard from Lorraine Turner, Accreditation Director at United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), who acknowledged there were shortcomings in UKAS\\u2019 assessments of bodies within the construction industry. \\nPresenter: Kate Lamble \\nProducers: Nathan Gower and Sharon Hemans \\nResearchers: Ben Henderson and Marcia Veiga \\nStudio Mix: Gareth Jones \\nEditor: Hugh Levinson

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