Performing Expertise in Building Regulation: ‘Codespeak’ and Fire Safety Experts
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Abstract Fire safety expertise was in great demand following the Grenfell Tower fire London June 2017. The government established a review of building regulations and an expert panel to inform its responses Grenfell, many other relevant organisations also formed their own panels. However, knowledge is highly contested domain, with claims based on differing sources. fighters can claim experience fighting fires, scientists science-based engineers from experimentation, those who create enact what termed ’codespeak’—the language regulation. Although distanced fundamental empirical fire, codespeak powerful because relative clarity certainty, legal status. Building users bring form ‘local’ expertise—they have first-hand practicalities solutions wrought by experts. Policy-makers thus face competing forms advice safety, ability judge most any particular case rests existence sufficient range depth in-house expertise.
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عنوان ژورنال: Minerva
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2530-6480', '0213-9634']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-021-09446-5