MPs have failed to protect ordinary citizens from the devastating costs of unsafe cladding, writes Stuart White. Plus letters from Neville March Hunnings, Rev David Gray, John Buckley and Jason Spencer-Cooke
As a retired structural engineer, I know that modern buildings are designed by highly qualified architects and engineers, working within a framework of planning law and building control regulations. These professionals pay a substantial amount for professional indemnity insurance to cover the rare cases of failure through design error.
In turn, it is expected that competent contractors, covered by their own insurers, will construct in accordance with those designs to achieve safe, good-quality buildings.
