
The Guardian11h ago
Foster + Partners cleared over man’s death when window fell from London penthouse
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The architecture firm founded by Norman Foster has been cleared over the death of a man killed by a window that fell 90 metres from a newly constructed London penthouse. Foster + Partners (F+P), the practice behind some of the world’s most recognisable buildings such as the Gherkin and revamps of the British Museum and Germany’s Reichstag, were not held to be responsible for the death of Mick Ferris, a 53-year-old coach driver, in 2018. However, St James, the project managers of the building where the incident took place, and the project’s engineers, Lindner Prater, were found guilty of safety breaches over the death by a jury at Inner London…
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