'Nothing new led to Grenfell. They were all well known problems that we have allowed to grow into big ones' - John Carpenter interview

This week Pete's Substack chats to John Carpenter, a structural engineer who recently quit the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in protest at its limited response to the Grenfell Tower fire

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