Fire safety official admits tests showed cladding danger 15 years before Grenfell

[Mr Gus]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... tower-fire

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"Richard Millett QC, counsel to the inquiry, asked Burd: “Do you accept that you, the British government, was aware from this time on, 2002, how ACM with a polyethylene [PE] core panel could behave in a fire?”

Burd said “I would recognise, yes, that we had more insight in terms of this kind of performance.”

The testing report compiled for Burd, at the time working in the office of the deputy prime minister, said the ACM panel performed so badly that the rig had to be extinguished early. Under a European classification of combustibility, the panels were likely to be ranked as D, which meant they should not be used on tall buildings. The safest class is A"