The practice which designed the disastrous refurbishment of Grenfell Tower bears a “significant degree” of responsibility for the fire which killed 72 people in 2017, according to the final report of the inquiry looking into the causes of the blaze.

Studio E, which went into liquidation in 2020, was strongly criticised in the report for failing to recognise the dangers of specifying the combustible ACM cladding used on the tower’s refurbishment. The cladding panels, supplied by Arconic, have been found to be the primary cause of the fire.

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