Latent Fire and Safety Defects in Post‑Grenfell Apartment Blocks: What Building Surveyors Should Still Be Checking

Nearly nine years after the Grenfell Tower fire claimed 72 lives, the UK's housing sector has poured enormous energy into identifying and removing dangerous cladding. Yet a quieter, more insidious problem persists: latent fire and safety defects in post‑Grenfell apartment blocks that have little to do with external cladding at all. Compartmentation breaches, failed fire […]