Grenfell Tower index
This article provides an index of key articles about the Grenfell Tower Fire. For more detail about the background and consequences of the fire, see our main Grenfell Tower article.
On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in Grenfell Tower, a block of social housing flats in North Kensington, London. The Metropolitan Police reported that 350 people were living in the Tower at the time. 72 people died.
The source of the fire is thought to have been a fridge freezer, and the unexpected speed of the fire’s spread is believed to have been contributed to by the recently-installed exterior cladding, a kind that has been cited as contributing to similar fires in high-rise buildings around the world in recent years. On 16 June 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May announced a public inquiry would be held, and that urgent safety reviews would be conducted into thousands of similar tower blocks.
There have been very serious consequences for the construction industry, including the introduction of new primary and secondary legislation, the creation of new roles and responsibilities, and remediation of buildings with a similar design to Grenfell Tower.
Key articles about Grenfell Tower on this site include:
- 2022 changes to fire safety guidance and building regulations.
- ACM cladding.
- Addressing building failures: Grenfell Tower and Edinburgh schools.
- Advice for External Wall Insulation (EWI) systems with a render or brick-slip finish.
- Advice note for external wall systems that do not incorporate ACM.
- BS 8414 Fire performance of external cladding systems.
- BS 9991:2015 Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice.
- BS 9999: Code of practice for fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings.
- Building a safer future: an implementation plan.
- Building a safer future: proposals for reform of the building safety regulatory system.
- Building Safety Act.
- Building safety agreement with developers.
- Building Safety Charter.
- Building Safety Fund.
- Building safety in Wales.
- Building Safety Regulator.
- Celotex insulation.
- Chief inspector of buildings.
- Fire performance of external thermal insulation for walls of multistorey buildings, third edition (BR 135).
- Fire Safety Act.
- Government consults on second staircases in new residential buildings over 30m.
- Government response to the Building a Safer Future consultation.
- Grenfell and professional indemnity insurance.
- Grenfell fire door investigation.
- Grenfell Tower fire background and consequences.
- Grenfell Tower independent expert advisory panel.
- Grenfell Tower industry response group.
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 1 Report.
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
- Hackitt review of the building regulations and fire safety, final report.
- HPL cladding.
- Independent review of the building regulations and fire safety.
- Independent review of the construction products testing regime.
- Joint Competent Authority.
- Lakanal House fire.
- Non-ACM cladding.
- Raising the bar.
- Reform of building safety standards.
- Residential Property Developer Tax.
- Ronan Point.
- Setting the bar.
- The Cube.
- The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
- Torre Windsor office building fire.
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