Grenfell Tower - wikipedia Grenfell Tower This article is about the building. For the fire which damaged it, see Grenfell Tower fire. Grenfell Tower Grenfell Tower in 2009, before refurbishment General information Status In ruins Location London, W11 United Kingdom Construction started 1972 Completed Renovated 2016 Destroyed 14 June 2017 Renovation cost £ 8.7 million Owner Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council Landlord Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation Height 67.3 metres ( 220 ft 10 in ) Technical details Floor count 24 Design and construction Architecture firm Clifford Wearden and Associates Main contractor AE Symes Renovating team Architect Studio E Architects Renovating firm Rydon Construction Artelia Max Fordham Main contractor WITT UK Harley Facades Celotex JS Wright & Sons Arconic Map of the western side of the Lancaster West Estate Grenfell Tower was a 24 - storey residential tower block in North Kensington, London, England. It was completed in 1974, as part of the first phase of the Lancaster West Estate. The tower was named after Grenfell Road which ran to the south of the structure. The road itself was named after Field Marshal Lord Grenfell ( 1841 -- 1925 ), a senior British Army officer. The concrete structure 's top 20 storeys consisted of 120 flats, with a total of 200 bedrooms. Its first four storeys were nonresidential until its most recent refurbishment in 2015 -- 2016, which converted two of them to residential use, bringing it up to 127 flats and 227 bedrooms. It also received new windows and new ( albeit faulty ) cladding with thermal insulation during this refurbishment. A major fire seriously damaged the building on 14 June 2017. At least 80 people were confirmed or presumed dead, according to the Metropolitan Police Service. Demolition of the tower is expected to start towards the end of 2018. Contents 1 Description 2 History 3 Renovation 4 Architect 5 Grenfell Action Group 6 Fire 7 References 8 External links Description The 24 - storey tower block was designed in 1967 in the Brutalist style of the era by Clifford Wearden and Associates, with the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council approving its construction in 1970, as part of phase one of the Lancaster West redevelopment project. The 67.3 metres ( 221 ft ) tall building contained 120 one - and two - bedroom flats ( six dwellings per floor on twenty of the twenty - four stories, with the bottom four, the podium, being used for non-residential purposes ). The floors were named ground, mezzanine, walkway and walkway + 1, floor 1, floor 2 etc. It housed up to 600 people. The tower was built to the Parker Morris standards. Each floor was 22m square, giving an approximate usable area of 476 square metres ( 5,120 sq ft ). The layout of each floor was designed to be flexible as none of the partition walls was structural. The residential floors contained a two bedroom flat at each corner, in between which on the east and the west face was a one bedroomed flat. The core contained a stair column and the lift and service shafts. One - bedroom flats were 51.4 m ( 553 sq ft ) in area and two - bedroom flats were 75.5 m ( 813 sq ft ). The building was innovative, as most LCC tower blocks used traditional brick work for infill whereas here precast insulated concrete blocks were used, giving the walls an unusual texture. The ten exterior concrete columns were also unusual. In addition, other tower blocks of this era had four flats per storey, rather than six. The original lead architect for the building, Nigel Whitbread, said in 2016 in an interview with Constantine Gras, which was later partially repeated in The Guardian, that the tower had been designed with attention to strength, following the Ronan Point collapse of 1968, `` and from what I can see could last another 100 years. '' He described it as a `` very simple and straightforward concept. You have a central core containing the lift, staircase and the vertical risers for the services and then you have external perimeter columns. The services are connected to the central boiler and pump which powered the whole development and this is located in the basement of the tower block. This basement is about 4 metres deep and in addition has 2 metres of concrete at its base. This foundation holds up the tower block and in situ concrete columns and slabs and pre-cast beams all tie the building together ''. History Construction, by contractors AE Symes, of Leyton, London, commenced in 1972, with the building being completed in 1974. Before construction the plans at basement level were changed from the original brief to accommodate the need for extra car - parking. In the early 1990s, access to the building was restricted through the use of key fobs, and lift access to the first four storeys was discontinued. The building was renovated in 2015 -- 16. When the building opened in 1974, it was nicknamed the ' Moroccan tower ' because many renters came from the local Moroccan immigrant community. In recent years some residents had become leaseholders, mostly under the Right to Buy scheme ; 14 flats in the tower, and three in Grenfell Walk, were leaseholder owned at the time of the fire. Renovation See also : Grenfell Tower fire § Renovation The renovation was part of a project to utilise the area around Lancaster Green. A new leisure centre had already been built to the east of the green, and the all - weather football pitches to the north of the tower were destined to become Kensington Academy. The renovation aimed to replace the substandard heating system, replace the windows, increase the thermal efficiency of the tower and improve appearance of the tower in the style of the academy. It aimed to reconfigure the podium levels in order to use the space more efficiently. The nursery would move from 244 m ( 2,630 sq ft ) on the mezzanine floor to 206 m ( 2,220 sq ft ) on the ground floor with immediate access to outside play space. The mezzanine floor would be continues across the full width of the building make space for three four bedroom, 101.5 m ( 1,093 sq ft ) 6 person flats. The Dale Youth boxing club gained almost 100 m ( 1,100 sq ft ) extra space by moving from the ground floor to the walkway level ( 190 m ( 2,000 sq ft ) to 287 m ( 3,090 sq ft ) ). Walkway + 1 level would be converted from offices, to four new four bedroom, 6 person flats. Plans by Studio E Architects for renovation of the tower were publicised in 2012. The £ 8.7 million refurbishment, undertaken by Rydon Ltd, of Forest Row, East Sussex in conjunction with Artelia for contract administration and Max Fordham as specialist mechanical and electrical consultants, was completed in 2016. As part of the project, in 2015 -- 2016, the concrete structure received new windows and new aluminium composite rainscreen cladding, in part to improve the appearance of the building. Two types were used : Arconic 's Reynobond PE, which consists of two coil - coated aluminium sheets that are fusion bonded to both sides of a polyethylene core ; and Reynolux aluminium sheets. Beneath these, and fixed to the outside of the walls of the flats, was Celotex RS5000 polyisocyanurate ( PIR ) thermal insulation. The work was carried out by Harley Facades of Crowborough, East Sussex, at a cost of £ 2.6 million. Architect Nigel Whitbread was lead architect for the Grenfell Tower. In an interview with Constantine Gras, quoted in the Guardian, he said that `` he was born in Kenton, his parents had a grocers shop on St Helen 's Gardens, North Kensington. He was educated at Sloane Grammar school and then got a position with the architects Douglas Stephen and Partners, who though small were applying the principles of Le Corbusier and the modernists. '' He worked alongside Kenneth Frampton who was the Technical Editor of the journal Architectural Design ; and Elia Zenghelis and Bob Maxwell. He moved to work for Clifford Wearden after the basic plan for Lancaster West Estate had been established. He later worked for 30 years until his retirement at Aukett Associates. Around 2016 he became involved with local residents association drawing up the St Quintin and Woodlands Neighbourhood Plan. This included the Imperial West site in Hammersmith and Fulham. Grenfell Action group A residents ' organisation, Grenfell Action Group ( GAG ), published a blog in which it highlighted major safety problems. In the last four years they published 10 warnings criticising fire safety and maintenance practices at Grenfell Tower. In 2013, the group published a 2012 fire risk assessment done by a TMO Health and Safety Officer which recorded safety concerns. Firefighting equipment at the tower had not been checked for up to four years ; on - site fire extinguishers had expired, and some had the word `` condemned '' written on them because they were so old. GAG documented its attempts to contact KCTMO management ; they also alerted the council Cabinet Member for Housing and Property but said they never received a reply from him or his deputy. In July 2013, the council threatened the group 's blogger with legal action, accusing them of `` defamatory behaviour '' and `` harassment ''. In January 2016, GAG warned that people might be trapped in the building if a fire broke out, pointing out that the building had only one entrance and exit, and corridors that were allowed to fill with rubbish, such as old mattresses. GAG frequently cited othep published online an article attacking KCTMO as an `` evil, unprincipled, mini-mafia '' and accusing the council of ignoring health and safety laws. In the chilling blog post, they warned that `` only a catastrophic event '' would `` expose the ineptitude and incompetence of ( KCTMO ) '' and `` bring an end to the dangerous living conditions and neglect of health and safety legislation '' at the building ``, adding, `` ( We ) predict that it wo n't be long before the words of this blog come back to haunt the KCTMO management and we will do everything in our power to ensure that those in authority know how long and how appallingly our landlord has ignored their responsibility to ensure the heath ( sic ) and safety of their tenants and leaseholders. They ca n't say that they have n't been warned ! '' Fire The fire burning early in the morning after the fire started The charred remains of the building after the fire Main article : Grenfell Tower fire The Grenfell Tower fire broke out on Wednesday 14 June 2017. Emergency services received the first report of the fire at 00 : 54 local time and it burned for around 24 hours. Initially hundreds of firefighters and 45 fire engines were involved in efforts to control the fire, with many firefighters continuing to attempt to control pockets of fire on the higher floors after most of the rest of the building had been gutted. Residents of surrounding buildings were evacuated due to concerns that the tower could collapse, though the building was later determined to be structurally sound. References Jump up ^ The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. `` Grenfell Tower ''. rbkc.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017. Jump up ^ `` PressReader.com -- Connecting People Through News ''. www.pressreader.com. ^ Jump up to : Grenfell Tower regeneration Project Archived 2017 - 06 - 17 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` No final Grenfell death toll ' this year ' ''. BBC News. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2017. Jump up ^ `` Work to start on covering Grenfell Tower ''. BBC. 27 July 2017. Retrieved 14 September 2017. Jump up ^ `` Category : Lancaster West Estate ''. Constantine Gras. self. Retrieved 19 June 2017. Jump up ^ Boughton, John ( 26 July 2017 ). `` A perfect storm of disadvantage : the history of Grenfell Tower - The i newspaper online iNews ''. inews.co.uk. Retrieved 27 July 2017. ^ Jump up to : `` Grenfell Tower floorplan shows how 120 flats were packed into highrise ''. The Telegraph. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017. ^ Jump up to : Whitbread, Nigel. `` Lancaster West Estate : An Ideal For Living ? ''. Constantine Gras. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017. Jump up ^ Marsden, Harriet ( 25 June 2017 ). `` Grenfell Tower 's unusual design ' contributed to speed of fire ' ''. The Independent. Jump up ^ Siddique, Nicola Slawson ( now ) Haroon ; Weaver, Matthew ; Watt, Holly ( 17 June 2017 ). `` Protesters march as anger mounts over Grenfell Tower response -- as it happened ''. The Guardian. 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Jump up ^ Fifield, Nicola ( 17 June 2017 ). `` Grenfell Tower missing pair were sent legal threats after fire safety warning ''. mirror. Retrieved 8 July 2017. Jump up ^ KCTMO -- Playing with fire ! Archived 2017 - 06 - 14 at the Wayback Machine., November 20, 2016 Jump up ^ ( earlier ), Nicola Slawson ( now ) Caroline Davies ( 18 June 2017 ). `` Grenfell Tower fire : Police say at least 58 missing as No 10 says each family to get £ 5,500 -- live updates ''. Retrieved 18 June 2017 -- via The Guardian. Jump up ^ Bentham, Martin ( 15 June 2017 ). `` London fire : Grenfell Tower death toll reaches 17 as fire chief says ' no more survivors ' ''. Evening Standard. London. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017. Retrieved 17 June 2017. Jump up ^ `` Sky News -- Live ''. Sky News. Sky UK. Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 14 June 2017. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grenfell Tower. 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Question: when was the grenfell tower in london built
Answer: 1974