Sam Webb (architect)

He worked as an architect at Camden Council[1] and was subsequently a lecturer at Kent Institute of Art & Design from 1975 to 1996 and then established his own practice.

[3] Webb undertook significant research into the construction of the Ronan Point tower block and other "Large Panel System" buildings following the collapse of the flats after a gas explosion in 1968.

After long negotiations with Newham Council, he was allowed to forensically dismantle Ronan Point to discover the extent of problems that had occurred in the building's initial construction.

[1] This eventually resulted in the demolition of Ronan Point and eight other panel system blocks on the Freemason's Road Estate in Newham London in 1986.

Six people were killed, among them two children and a baby, when a fire caused by a faulty television in a ninth-floor home gutted the building.