EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• Britain has just witnessed one of the most shocking failures in Building Safety and the likely cause is the UK’s current building procedure – be that what was speci ed, what was installed or how it was installed.
• What happened isn’t a random incident and, as subsequent product testing has revealed, it could happen again. Its repercussions are likely to be felt throughout the building product sector for years to come.
• For many years Britain’s once thriving cable industry has fallen foul to substandard cable product – left to in ltrate the market and undercut the quality products that once made Britain great. Poor market surveillance has also taken its toll.
• Construction Products Regulation (CPR), an EU piece of legislation could be the UK cable industry’s saviour and be a template for how building products should be categorised and market surveillance implemented. Yet a lack of desire to embrace the principle of the CPR, monitor the market, enforce the CPR and
