One year after the tragic fire at Grenfell we are starting to see the future landscape of how we design, build and operate buildings. We are going to hear a lot about competence, compliance and evidence. We will also be talking about the 'golden thread' and how this will mean project completion and handover are no longer synonymous. When responsibility for design and delivery is clear, we can expect differing attitudes to cost-cutting disguised as value engineering. The days of promising one thing and delivering something cheaper and inferior should end. Good companies have nothing to fear - this will level the playing field and reward those that invest in competence. And it will benefit those that can demonstrate compliance through evidence.
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