CCPI welcomes Government response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Report   

PRESS RELEASE – Friday 28th February 2025
 

CCPI welcomes Government response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Report   

Amanda Long, Chief Executive of CPI Ltd, the not-for-profit organisation set up to guard and manage the Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI), said, ‘The Government response to the Grenfell Phase Two Inquiry Report and publication of the Green Paper confirms the Government’s commitment to bring forward system-wide reform of the construction products regime.  We welcome this and applaud the tougher stance on compliance and enforcement.  This is crucial to preventing further tragedy.  Throughout the Government Green Paper, the importance of clear, accurate, accessible, up-to-date and unambiguous product information and marketing is consistently underscored as critical to the change required.  

Long further commented, ‘The direction of travel laid out by the Government is clear.  Industry does not need to wait.  All parties must now play their part and embrace greater responsibility, accountability and transparency.  In line with this, the CCPI is on a mission to drive a transformational step-change in construction product information management and marketing.   If you are a demand-side player – whether that be a contractor, developer, housebuilder, client, architect, specifier, insurer – join our Supporter community.  If you are a manufacturer or supplier, merchant or distributor, register with the CCPI for assessment of product information and marketing and become part of the community working with the CCPI to raise standards across the industry’. 

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Notes to editors: 

The aim of the Code for Construction Product information (CCPI) is to raise standards in construction product information and marketing and drive positive culture change in the manufacturing and supply sector in relation to product information and marketing.  Ultimately, we seek to move the industry to a place where product information is clear, accurate, accessible, up-to-date and unambiguous.   

The CCPI assessment process includes critical mechanisms, such as our Leadership and Culture and ongoing Registration elements, which do not exist elsewhere in the construction sector in assessments for manufacturers and their product information.  These, along with other aspects of CCPI Registration, such as our Issues Portal, provide valuable elements of assessment and on-going engagement to help users and specifiers have more confidence that they are working with manufacturers and suppliers that are committed to continually improving their product information by registering and conforming with the CCPI. Please note, conformance with CCPI is not a guarantee of product information.    

There are two separate Codes – one for Manufacturers and the other for Merchants & Distributors.
For Manufacturers there are eleven Clauses of the CCPI which cover a wide range of matters from responsibility for product information, to clarity of performance claims made, general information and competency.  

For Merchants & Distributors there is a four-clause Code of the CCPI covering a range of responsibilities, including requirements to have audit trails for all product information, documented sign-off process, and have a company policy in place to promote the Manufacturers CCPI to its suppliers.   

The aim is that clients, specifiers and users will make preference to work with products that conform to CCPI. 

For further questions please contact:  enquiries@cpicode.org.uk