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25 Jun 17
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Cladding on 60 high-rise buildings across 25 local authority areas in England has failed fire safety tests, the government has said.
Tests are taking place on the fire resistance of cladding on up to 600 buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington on 14 June.
The Department for Communities and Local Government said all buildings examined so far had failed the test.
Councils were told to prioritise buildings they had most concern over.
Not all the buildings affected have so far been named but a list from the DCLG identifies 14 of the areas:
Camden - five buildings
Brent - one
Barnet - three
Hounslow - one
Islington - one
Lambeth - one
Wandsworth - two
Manchester - four
Norwich - one
Plymouth - three
Portsmouth - two
Doncaster - one
Sunderland - five
Stockton-on-Tees - three...
so how come they got through in the first place ?
Tests are taking place on the fire resistance of cladding on up to 600 buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington on 14 June.
The Department for Communities and Local Government said all buildings examined so far had failed the test.
Councils were told to prioritise buildings they had most concern over.
Not all the buildings affected have so far been named but a list from the DCLG identifies 14 of the areas:
Camden - five buildings
Brent - one
Barnet - three
Hounslow - one
Islington - one
Lambeth - one
Wandsworth - two
Manchester - four
Norwich - one
Plymouth - three
Portsmouth - two
Doncaster - one
Sunderland - five
Stockton-on-Tees - three...
so how come they got through in the first place ?
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yeah boxingthefox has probably nailed it but this stuff must have
gone through testing long before that stage
somebody must have invented it and got it through testing somewhere ?
gone through testing long before that stage
somebody must have invented it and got it through testing somewhere ?
the new 'new' cladding has a better reflective surface so that when installed
it'll reflect the light from the sun so well as to burn all the houses below
in reflective heat.
This sounds very imaginative, but it actually happened somewhere, the light
was bouncing off glass panels in a sky scraper and hitting cars in the street
causing burn damage. We have to find a way to turn all towers into solar
death rays to control the population. It's progress.
it'll reflect the light from the sun so well as to burn all the houses below
in reflective heat.
This sounds very imaginative, but it actually happened somewhere, the light
was bouncing off glass panels in a sky scraper and hitting cars in the street
causing burn damage. We have to find a way to turn all towers into solar
death rays to control the population. It's progress.
I read one article in which a fire safety expert claimed that material just wouldn't sustain a flame but the cause of the fire was the one inch spacing behind the cladding which acted as a wind tunnel and drew the flames higher. I am wondering if the government agencies promoting green energy defined the fixing method in the tender documents and detailed investigation absolves the contractors of all blame. Rather like the government driven organic phosphates debacle though,we may never get the full truth in a public enquiry. Have we ever ?
It appears the cladding was only legal for buildings below 10 meters in high. Although, inspectors failed to identify the problem on multiple occasions. So the fault lies with the inspectors and contractors. Draw your own conclusions.
The US firm that supplied cladding used on London's Grenfell Tower says it has ended global sales of the product for use in high-rise blocks.
Arconic said it was discontinuing sales of Reynobond PE for tower blocks due to "issues" identified by the fire, which is feared to have killed at least 79.
The government said 75 buildings in 26 council areas had now failed fire safety tests - every one tested so far.
Theresa May said councils need to speed up tower block safety tests in England.
Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid said all hospitals and schools had also been asked to carry out "immediate checks".
bbc.co.uk
Arconic said it was discontinuing sales of Reynobond PE for tower blocks due to "issues" identified by the fire, which is feared to have killed at least 79.
The government said 75 buildings in 26 council areas had now failed fire safety tests - every one tested so far.
Theresa May said councils need to speed up tower block safety tests in England.
Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid said all hospitals and schools had also been asked to carry out "immediate checks".
bbc.co.uk
Shares in Arconic fell as much as 11.3 per cent on Monday following weekend reports that the US company had knowingly supplied flammable cladding panels that were fitted to Grenfell Tower, the London high-rise gutted by a fire in mid-June that killed at least 79 people.
The sell off by investors followed a report by Reuters on Saturday that it had obtained six emails sent between Arconic’s UK sales manager and executives at the contractors working on Grenfell Tower that raised questions about why the flammable cladding was supplied.
The company makes three variants of the Reynobond cladding panels that were used to clad the tower block – one with a flammable polyethylene (PE) core, a second with a fire retardant core and a third with a non-combustible core.
ft.com
The sell off by investors followed a report by Reuters on Saturday that it had obtained six emails sent between Arconic’s UK sales manager and executives at the contractors working on Grenfell Tower that raised questions about why the flammable cladding was supplied.
The company makes three variants of the Reynobond cladding panels that were used to clad the tower block – one with a flammable polyethylene (PE) core, a second with a fire retardant core and a third with a non-combustible core.
ft.com
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