Safety checks on high rise apartment blocks following this June’s horrific Grenfell Tower fire (ENR 6/26-7/3 p. 10) have revealed that essential reinforcing work ordered nearly 50 years ago on four 15-floor buildings may never have been done.
London’s Southwark Borough Council, the owner, has ordered gas supplies to be shut off from the Ledbury estate buildings to prevent a similar progressive collapse that caused four deaths at the Ronan Point block in May 1968.