Green walls and brick slips are a microcosm for the continuing failure of construction safety

Dodgy tests, a lack of clear regulation, a pursuit of aesthetics and the financial bottom line being placed above safety. Sound familiar? It should.

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Green walls and brick slips are an unexpectedly good microcosm for what - seven years on from the Grenfell Tower fire - continues to be wrong with the construction sector’s attitude to safety. 

Let’s start with some definitions. A green wall is an installation …