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6 Four years on

Background1
Clearly, progress has been made towards establishing the new regime
for building safety. The draft Building Safety Bill has been published,
though the detail will need to be set out in secondary legislation. Dame
Judith Hackitt has been made chair of the Transition Board, tasked
with establishing the new BSR, and Peter Baker has been announced as
the first Chief Inspector of Buildings to lead the new BSR.2 However,
progress has been slow and difficult in other areas especially with respect
to the remediation works to HRRBs.
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, the government set up an
independent expert advisory panel (the expert panel) to provide advice
and make recommendations to the MHCLG on immediate building
safety measures that should be implemented to identify HRRBs of 18
m or more in order. The 18 m threshold is stated in Approved Docu-
ment B to the Building Regulations as the point at which additional fire
safety provisions are required.
The expert panel combines a wealth of experience and k nowledge
around fire prevention, building safety and testing processes with a
remit that allows them to engage additional technical expertise if nec-
essary. The expert panel includes a former London Fire Commissioner,
the Chair of the National Fire Chiefs Council and the Chief Executive
of the Building Research Establishment.
The original terms of reference3 for the expert panel included the
provision of advice on fire safety issues in relation to: (a) A luminium
Composite Material (ACM) cladding systems including polyethylene
fillers which was the material used at Grenfell Tower, (b) fire doors
and other building safety products and (c) assisting the government
in implementing the Hackitt Review. The expert panel was tasked to
consider whether any changes or clarifications to existing regulations

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