EPIC is the first trade body to support '100% Hackitt'

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"EPIC members manufacture highly-engineered, thoroughly-tested building elements which can be relied upon to perform predictably in service," says EPIC General Secretary Chris Pateman. "So Dame Judith Hackitt's insistence on seeing high-rise buildings as complex systems, selecting materials in the light of proven engineering performance and resisting 'quick-fix' solutions, absolutely resonates with everything EPIC has been striving to achieve for the last 15 years." '100% Hackitt' is an initiative launched in October 2018 by two building specialists, British Board of Agrement (BBA) and Local Authority Building Control (LABC). It aims to bring together individuals and organisations, ranging from architects to firefighters, to support Dame ludith Hackitt's vision of 'a radical rethink of the whole system! Within the 159-page report, she argues that an immediate and extended implementation of the whole plan is necessary to create a robust regulatory framework. She says that if the industry cherry-picks its actions it 'will fail to achieve the systemic change sought. The framework operates as a mutually reinforcing package and requires the implementation of its interdependent components in order for this to be achieved!