Clarion Housing’s post-Grenfell strategy has been commended by Dame Judith Hackitt. Will Mann talks to the group’s building safety team about cladding remediation, quality management and the power of data.
“Of our 10,000 buildings, almost 9,000 used half-brick or brick slips as the predominant material. The risk posed by certain materials was more concentrated in a smaller number of buildings but, given the sheer volume of our stock, these
still represented hundreds of buildings that would need investigating further.”
“When we started, the failure rate for appraised buildings was almost 100%, because we were focusing on buildings we suspected had issues,” says Lawlor. “However, as we progressed through our model, the failure rate dropped to around 20%, with 80% passing, which reflects our improved targeting of the most problematic buildings.
“For example, an external wall will be broken down by material, insulation material, type of frame etc. If there are changes, we’ll be able to react to that quickly by clicking a button and making the changes to information about that external wall. Hopefully, we’re setting the foundations with our system that we have now, so that in the future we can be really agile, flexible and quick to respond.”
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