SCOSS summarizes the full report on Grenfell. Some of the specifics are UK-only, but the general issues apply everywhere.
Most architects and engineers are not experts in fire safety, so we follow the codes. But there are always gray areas at the edges (How much flame-spread is acceptable in a pre-manufactured curtain wall? How much can we trade off sprinklers against egress geometry? How do you determine a fire-rating where two different forms of fireproofing meet?) and so relying on the codes is arguably not good enough. Maybe fire-protection specialists have to be part of the design team in the same way that structural and mechanical engineers have to be.
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