Podcasts about grenfell towers

PJ chats with the new CEO of CRITICAL about his experiences helping at Grenfell Towers and how they hope to empower communities for first response Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Lisa speaks with one of the leading ladies in infosec, Sarah Armstrong-Smith. What can we learn from incidents outside of cyber security? Do we see the same patterns of mistakes and oversights play out over and over? What should we all be thinking about when we plan for the worst? Sarah and Lisa discuss all things incident response, a topic they are hugely passionate about. Sarah talks about the mistakes made in some of the most horrific incidents such as Grenfell Towers in the UK and we examine how quickly mistakes can spiral out of control. Are we also too quick to blame people? Was it the people who failed or the process? Enjoy! ►► https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-armstrong-smith/ ►► Twitter: @SarahASmith75

How do you carry on when you've lost everything? Today Ian meets Munira Mahmoud, a mother-of-two and survivor of Grenfell Towers who found an unexpected roadmap to move forward after disaster. Munira's passion for cooking carried her through dark times. Months after the fire, she founded the Hubb Community Kitchen - a space for survivors to prepare meals, process grief and exchange stories. After surviving one crisis, the women of the Hubb Kitchen sprang into action again, this time supporting vulnerable families hit hard by the pandemic. If you like what you've heard so far and think you've got an amazing story to tell we'd love to hear from you, get in touch with us at everydaypeople@somethinelse.com Follow Munira's adventures in food and her work within the community at @MuniraEats (Instagram) and www.kinamama.com And to learn how to prepare delicious recipes inspired by the women of the Hubb Community Kitchen head to https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/1084233/the-hubb-community-kitchen.html. A Somethin' Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of This Must Be The Place is a bit different – normally I talk to people, but in this episode I (meaning Liz Taylor, Monash University) actually just read out an essay I wrote recently about my experience of living in a building with combustible cladding. Also about reading Kafka (and Graeber) and…well that’s the basic premise. I’ve called it Trial by Cladding. “I recently finished reading Franz Kafka’s 1925 novel “The Trial”: the unsettling, absurd story of a young middle-class man suddenly caught up in a farce of bureaucracy. The protagonist Joseph K spends a year fighting charges which are never named, but of which he is presumed guilty. He is increasingly consumed by obscure court proceedings which, officious lawyers assure him, are very serious, but that he need not dare try to understand. Disbelief ebbs into resignation. Weekends disappear with worry, and inconvenient appointments see him start to slip up at his job at the bank. The fact he doesn’t know what he is accused of, or whether or not he did something wrong, becomes irrelevant even to himself. “My innocence doesn’t make the matter any simpler”, K reflects: “I have to fight against countless subtleties in which the Court is likely to lose itself. And in the end, out of nothing at all, an enormous fabric of guilt will be conjured up”. I started reading “The Trial” after my apartment building’s last Owners Corporation meeting, because I wanted to directly understand the adjective ‘Kafkaesque’, and its applicability to our situation with combustible cladding. Like most people I knew Kafka was shorthand for absurd situations - famously “Metamorphosis” begins with the character waking up as a giant insect. From its popular usage I understood ‘Kafkaesque’ to mean a comically complicated process – which the situation with combustible cladding certainly already was. But I think “The Trial” had also once been mentioned to me in passing by a Croatian colleague who described her suspicion of cheerful government descriptions of policies. To her, having grown up in communist Yugoslavia, these inevitably signalled something cruelly incompetent going on in the background. Like in “The Trial”, she said. In the confusing boredom of an Owners Corporation meeting concerned with the strange details of the urgent need for us to remove chunks of our building, I was drawn to finally reading “The Trial”. At the least, I thought it might provide a lighter perspective on our situation. Like tens of thousands of others in Victoria, I own and live in an apartment in a building containing combustible cladding - similar materials to what fuelled the 2017 fire at London’s Grenfell Towers, in which 72 people died. In the wake of the Grenfell fire and of a 2014 fire at the LaCrosse Building in Melbourne’s Docklands, Victoria’s Cladding Taskforce determined that the presence of combustible cladding, including aluminium composite panels, on high rise buildings is unsafe and non-compliant. Perhaps surprisingly, the onus for rectifying non-compliant cladding in Victoria has been placed with apartment owners. Not with the builders, developers and other professionals who specified and used the materials and sold the apartments; not with the insurance agencies fond of advertising how awful it would be if a random problem were to happen to your house and ‘won’t you be glad you had insurance’ when it does; nor the local and state government regulators (and private building surveyors who replaced council building inspectors from the 1990s) who signed off on the buildings. Instead, owners who bought purportedly compliant apartments are compelled to fix an urgent problem created by government and industry, and facing bills of typically $40,000 to $60,000 per apartment to do so. In most cases they are poorly equipped to navigate the financial and broader costs. But as Joseph K reflects, “innocence doesn’t make the matter any simpler”…[more in episode]

This episode of This Must Be The Place is a bit different – normally I talk to people, but in this episode I (meaning Liz Taylor, Monash University) actually just read out an essay I wrote recently about my experience of living in a building with combustible cladding. Also about reading Kafka (and Graeber) and…well that's the basic premise. I've called it Trial by Cladding. “I recently finished reading Franz Kafka's 1925 novel “The Trial”: the unsettling, absurd story of a young middle-class man suddenly caught up in a farce of bureaucracy. The protagonist Joseph K spends a year fighting charges which are never named, but of which he is presumed guilty. He is increasingly consumed by obscure court proceedings which, officious lawyers assure him, are very serious, but that he need not dare try to understand. Disbelief ebbs into resignation. Weekends disappear with worry, and inconvenient appointments see him start to slip up at his job at the bank. The fact he doesn't know what he is accused of, or whether or not he did something wrong, becomes irrelevant even to himself. “My innocence doesn't make the matter any simpler”, K reflects: “I have to fight against countless subtleties in which the Court is likely to lose itself. And in the end, out of nothing at all, an enormous fabric of guilt will be conjured up”. I started reading “The Trial” after my apartment building's last Owners Corporation meeting, because I wanted to directly understand the adjective ‘Kafkaesque', and its applicability to our situation with combustible cladding. Like most people I knew Kafka was shorthand for absurd situations - famously “Metamorphosis” begins with the character waking up as a giant insect. From its popular usage I understood ‘Kafkaesque' to mean a comically complicated process – which the situation with combustible cladding certainly already was. But I think “The Trial” had also once been mentioned to me in passing by a Croatian colleague who described her suspicion of cheerful government descriptions of policies. To her, having grown up in communist Yugoslavia, these inevitably signalled something cruelly incompetent going on in the background. Like in “The Trial”, she said. In the confusing boredom of an Owners Corporation meeting concerned with the strange details of the urgent need for us to remove chunks of our building, I was drawn to finally reading “The Trial”. At the least, I thought it might provide a lighter perspective on our situation. Like tens of thousands of others in Victoria, I own and live in an apartment in a building containing combustible cladding - similar materials to what fuelled the 2017 fire at London's Grenfell Towers, in which 72 people died. In the wake of the Grenfell fire and of a 2014 fire at the LaCrosse Building in Melbourne's Docklands, Victoria's Cladding Taskforce determined that the presence of combustible cladding, including aluminium composite panels, on high rise buildings is unsafe and non-compliant. Perhaps surprisingly, the onus for rectifying non-compliant cladding in Victoria has been placed with apartment owners. Not with the builders, developers and other professionals who specified and used the materials and sold the apartments; not with the insurance agencies fond of advertising how awful it would be if a random problem were to happen to your house and ‘won't you be glad you had insurance' when it does; nor the local and state government regulators (and private building surveyors who replaced council building inspectors from the 1990s) who signed off on the buildings. Instead, owners who bought purportedly compliant apartments are compelled to fix an urgent problem created by government and industry, and facing bills of typically $40,000 to $60,000 per apartment to do so. In most cases they are poorly equipped to navigate the financial and broader costs. But as Joseph K reflects, “innocence doesn't make the matter any simpler”…[more in episode]

In the wake of London’s catastrophic Grenfell Towers fire, and of local incidents including a balcony fire at Melbourne Dockland’s LaCrosse Tower, governments are increasingly acting to limit the use of Aluminium Composite Panels (ACP) and Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) cladding. Also referred to as flammable or combustible cladding, use of these materials – especially in buildings over 3 levels – is now presumed non-compliant with building and construction codes in Victoria. In its 2017 report the Victorian Cladding Taskforce found the widespread use of combustible cladding to have been enabled by a poor culture of industry compliance; issues with supply and marketing of materials; and multiple regulatory systems failures. In this episode of This Must Be the Place Elizabeth speaks with Sahil Bhasin, National General Manager of Roscon – a building consultant group specialising in expert reports – about his perspective on the causes and costs of the combustible cladding problem (AKA ‘fiasco’). Sahil provided advice to the Senate Committee for Building Defects, and to the Victorian Cladding Taskforce. Here Sahil explains what combustible cladding is, why and where there is so much of it (look, low cost, easy to install, etc.), applicable standards, enforcement and data gaps, and who is paying for the scramble to rectify. He also offers a glimpse into the black hole of governance decisions behind it. The episode considers the effects of decades of cumulative legislative changes including to insurance, building surveyors, and building authority jurisdictions, combined with a construction boom. Compounding difficulties of ongoing compliance, Australia faces the legacy of thousands of buildings already swathed in combustible materials. In Victoria tens of thousands of buildings, and hundreds of thousands of people, are in the midst of auditing and rectification set to last several years. Owners Corporations are grappling with estimates as high as $40,00 to $60,000 per apartment and millions of dollars per building, and an uncertain process within which properties are in limbo. A theme is governments passing the costs of fixing cladding onto apartment owners. For example courts ruled that, as a result of legislative changes, the Victorian Building Authority cannot order directions to builders to fix non-compliant buildings after owners move in. Combined with audits and with changes exempting builders from home warranty insurance for buildings over three levels, homebuyers particularly in high-rise buildings have few consumer protections. With major builders going into administration, there are also often few legal recourses. To Sahil, “the government’s got itself to blame and the consumers are the ones paying the price”. Sahil argues recently announced loan schemes are not only unfair, but are political spin and too complex to work in practice. Sahil says cladding is a bigger problem in Victoria than figures often cited. And that new construction continues to use cladding, even in the same municipalities currently issuing hundreds of notices to owners: “the message isn’t getting to the core, which is the builders”. Also included are perspectives on: lack of warranty insurance; misleading language of suppliers, media and the politics of risk, devaluation, commercial buildings, differences between Australia and UK, the role of fire engineers, resourcing issues including essential services audits, fixes (avoided), and the power and influence of the building industry. With an aggregate bill of billions of dollars, the fallout from cladding is unfolding through industries, property markets, and legal systems. As well as immediate practical challenges, the cladding story raises broader questions around the nature of risk and liability in our buildings and cities, and the frameworks that govern them. Disclosures: Elizabeth owns and lives in an apartment in an impacted building. Sahil’s company consults for buildings with cladding.

I am at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and am joined by Dane Baptiste, Kane Brown and Archie Maddocks. We discuss our shows, Grenfell Towers and diversity at this 2017 fringe. Follow me on twitter or instagram @comediandana and this podcast @worldcomedypod. Stay tuned for new episodes all month long.

Your favourite Podcasters are back! In this episode we give you and update on the tragedy of Grenfell Towers, the current wave of acid attacks across London, we give our take on the Mayweather/Mcgregor fight and My girl is whining with next man in the club?! What?! Nahhh Look just..PRESS PLAY! HASHTAG: #LetsBeHonestPodcast SPREAD THE WORD!! This episode is also available on iTunes. REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE, RATE AND REVIEW Follow The Twitter & Instagram: @LetsBeHonestPod Follow The Hosts: @KalexWzy @Real_Abdi @HoodXPope REMEMBER WE ARE LIVE EVERY SATURDAY 10AM-12PM ON: LockedOnline.co.uk For any situations, problems or advice email us at; letsbehonestpod@gmail.com

In episode 353 of Janey Godley’s podcast with award winning comedian Ashley Storrie we discuss how families aren’t always supportive but strangers are.   Ashley and Janey discuss last night’s weird parallel dream. There are many questions and many answers but we do touch on how the Tories are ignoring the families from Grenfell Towers and how that will be their demise.  

Scottish Liberty Podcast episode 52 brought to you by Antony Sammeroff and Tom Laird and Craig Houston aka. Cip of Cips Clips . Three Scottish Libertarians discuss Grenfell Towers and UK General Election 2017.

We head to Birmingham for Collectormania 24 were we interview Nana Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Torchwood: Miracle Day), Ben Browder (Stargate: SG1, Farscape, Doctor Who: A Town Called Mercy) & Tony Curran (Sons of Anarchy. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Doctor Who: Vincent & the Doctor). We also read you comments on this weeks Empress of Mars Doctor Who episode and so much more. To support the victims of the fire at Grenfell Towers in London mentioned in this weeks show, please donate to www.TheKandCFoundation.com Whovian Round-up & Round-up Reviews are by http://indiemacuser.com/ Gallifrey Stands can be found at on twitter @DoctorSquee, by email GallifreyStandsPodcast@gmail.com, on stitcher, iTunes, The Tangent-Bound Network, Satchel Player & http://gallifreystandspodcast.podbean.com & on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1481026762176392/ You can buy the Gallifrey Stands lipbalm @ https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/209093664/gallifrey-stands-geek-stix-inspired-by?ref=shop_home_active_12 Please support our Pod-Pals too: DisAfterDark http://disafterdark.blogspot.co.uk/ Just give me a few minutes http://justgivemeafewminutes.podomatic.com/ AMAudioMedia http://amaudiomedia.com/ TangentBoundNetwork http://TangentBoundNetwork.com/ Drinking in the Park http://Neilandjohnny.com EMC Network http://www.electronicmediacollective.com/ WhoNews http://www.who-news.com/