Rydon Contract Manager Used ‘Essex Boy Patter’ To Push Cheaper Cladding Option For Grenfell

The firm, which was revealed to have hidden the true size of potential savings on cladding to boost its own profit margin, wanted to use a cheaper “face-fixed” system rather than panels which had been cut into cassettes. But planners at Kensington and Chelsea Council favoured the cassette system because they believed it gave a smoother and more aesthetically pleasing look. “I have a gut feeling that KCTMO may go [for] the cassette fixed cladding option due to the perceived cladding risk,” wrote contract manager Simon Lawrence in an internal Rydon email. “I’m giving it my hardest sales pitch as we speak. Come on the Essex boy patter!” Read more on Inside Housing.

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