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BS 8414-1

British Standard for external wall systems: fire performance test for facade assemblies. The large-scale test that ACM-PE cladding, as installed at Grenfell Tower, would have failed. Absence of BS 8414-1 testing in the approval chain was a central Inquiry finding.

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