Contractors ban stands after Grenfell
Contractors that were implicated in the Grenfell Tower fire will remain banned from council contracts in the future, Kensington & Chelsea council has said. The indefinite ban will apply to Kingspan, Celotex, Arconic, and Rydon as part of a series of measures by the council to review and improve its culture.
A public inquiry found that cladding was a primary factor in the fire in 2017 which killed 72 people in north Kensington. The 24-storey block is owned by the council and had been refurbished in the years leading up to the tragedy.
The ban on the contractors was announced at a council meeting held to discuss its response to the final report from the inquiry, there months after it was published. A council document presented at the meeting said the inquiry had “laid bare catastrophic failures that occurred… in circumstances that were entirely preventable.”
The contractors implicated in the fire had been banned from council contracts in 2021.
Arconic Architectural Products SAS (AAP) made parts of the cladding materials and did not respond directly to the ban. It stated that it had co-operated with the inquiry and made financial settlements for those affected. “AAP did not conceal information from or mislead any certification body, customer, or the public.”
Of the other contractors, Saint Gobain, owner of Celotex, has not commented and Kingspan and Rydon did not respond.
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