At approximately 5:45am on Thursday 16th May 1968, Ivy Hodge lit a match. A duff connection between the gas main and her cooker, however, had allowed gas to leak into the kitchen. The cloud ...

Throughout this week we will be publishing a number of articles on building safety to mark the 50 th anniversary of the Ronan Point disaster. This week marks the 50 th anniversary of what was, until ...

But buildings of this sort have since been found to be vulnerable to collapse, particularly if a gas explosion dislodges one of the slabs. This occurred in 1968 in Canning Town, east London, when a ...

Ronan Point following the building collapse, 1968. RIBA Collections Sam Webb recounted these events in a 1988 lecture at the RIBA on the Ronan Point disaster and the “people in high places” at its ...

Four people were killed when Ronan Point tower block in east London partially collapsed on 16 May 1968. A gas explosion triggered the collapse of the structurally unsound building.

Broadwater Farm estate, which features 12 separate blocks, was completed in the early 1970s using the large panel system (LPS) construction method.. The estate was built by Taylor Woodrow-Anglian, the ...

Residents have voted to demolish all four Ronan Point-style towers on a south London ... however a detailed report by engineer Arup subsequently revealed the buildings were at risk of disproportionate ...

BBC Newsnight's Chris Cook on how a building safety problem from the 1960s is growing, once again, as a concern for officials in local and national government ...