No further report was commissioned, Exova said, before the 14 June 2017 fire spread through the combustible cladding system within minutes, engulfing the 120-apartment building and ultimately claiming 72 lives. Grenfell: England's building safety system 'still unfit for purpose' Read moreHowever, the report, obtained by Inside Housing magazine and seen by the Guardian, appears to have been carried out without the experts realising new cladding was being planned. Even though the architects, Studio E, had already proposed a full reclad in planning documents, Exova’s fire safety strategy does not include it in a list of changes in the £10m refurbishment. “The information that Exova was supplied with in order to prepare this work did not include any specification in relation to any proposed cladding system,” the company said in a statement. It is not yet clear what further fire safety strategy analysis was carried out as the design progressed.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2019 16:42 UTC