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Highly recommend checking out "Well There's Your Problem" which is a podcast/YouTube series on engineering disasters. They have an episode on Grenfell, specific

• robocat 6y ago
  Skip forward to 44:00 for the discussion of the design of the cladding, then the discussion proper on direct cause & effect starts about 52:00. The first 3/4 hour is mostly history with a political bent, which although it is interesting, it is a bit waffling. At one point they allude to the Estonia Agreement 1995 which has nothing to do with the fire but is interesting: https://www.newstatesman.com/node/195304 https://www.newstatesman.com/node/195304
• oasisbob 6y ago
  That podcast is fun, but it's only really superficially about engineering disasters. They even admit this in one of the early episodes, something like "surprise! This isn't about engineering, we're really doing a personality-driven conversational play!" Most topics are only superficially researched and even more thinly presented. Having 5-10 minutes of information in a two hour episode is usually too little for my tastes.