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IN DEPTH


www.cilipconference.org.uk


CILIP Conference returns to Birming- ham on 2 and 3 July with a lineup of speakers from across the profession and beyond.


CILIP’s annual conference is a unique opportunity for anyone working in the Knowledge, Information Management and Library sectors to unite around shared goals and common ground. CILIP Conference 2025 continues to


focus on leadership priorities, bringing opportunities for emerging and aspiring leaders to join a community of established leadership practitioners. The conference offers a welcoming space to exchange ideas and hear from thought leaders and stars of the profession. Delegates will learn new insights into their own sectors, as well as having a window onto the work of peers working in different areas of


the profession, helping to build a more rounded understanding of the opportuni- ties and challenges that are on the horizon. In the article below you can hear from one of this year’s speakers for the popular KM Strand that is running throughout CILIP Conference. You can find out more about this year’s progamme on the pages following this feature or by visiting www.cilipconference.org.uk.


Capturing knowledge – understanding through lessons learned in the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry


A project that has distilled the lessons learned from the Grenfell Tower Public Inquiry is helping to shape future work at engineering and design firm, Arup. Kirsty Walker, a fire engineer at Arup, and one of the project team will be speaking at this year’s CILIP Conference and here she talks us through the project and its impact.


THE genesis of the project: Barbara Lane, supported by a team of fire engineers from Arup, acted as an expert witness for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. During the prepara- tion of evidence for the Inquiry, a vast quan- tity of information was produced by the team across several very large reports. The Learnings from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry SharePoint page project was created to enable Arup colleagues to navigate effectively through the evidence, and therefore find relevant information which can be put to use on their projects. The project was initiated by Farah Binte Mohd Faudzi, a senior fire engineer at Arup. The page was primarily intended for fire engineers, and therefore the project team is based out of the fire practice. The project leads, Farah and Graeme Flint, both worked on the Inquiry for several years and therefore had a good overview of the available information. Graeme was also able to provide direction on how users are most likely to benefit from interacting with the infor- mation. Matthew, Shane and I were then able to do the SharePoint development work on document sign- posting and webpage design, as well as contributing


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Kirsty Walker, Fire Engineer at Arup.


to user experience research and streamlining of the interface. who worked on the Inquiry. Since the page was created, it has been released to the wider firm and has been updated following feedback from users.


Knowledge resource


There are two ways that users can interact with the site. Firstly, each of the reports and videos hosted on the site have been provided with a summary description of the content, which allow users to navigate around the different documents and choose those that interest them. Additionally, as part of the summarising process, a map of the different topics covered by each report was also created. The main work of the team therefore was to create an intuitive interface to allow users to navigate across the topic map to quickly find the information of most relevance to them. For example, some topics covered by the reports are smoke control systems, the testing of materials, and the timeline of events. The recordings of Barbara’s expert witness testi- mony have also been embedded into the relevant topic page at the point in the video where the topic is discussed. This was a really important part of the


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