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tj444 -> RE: Cladding fire tests failed by 27 high-rise blocks (6/25/2017 6:06:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire
More high-rises fail fire safety tests 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 up to 600 buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire in North Kensington feared to have killed 79 people.
The Department for Communities and Local Government said all buildings examined so far have failed the test on fire resistant cladding.
This story is getting more scary. It would appear they are all on course to fail.
My last job was quality manager as some of you have no doubt wondered before I became a daft olde loon.
Testing/Compliance are the first jobs to go anywhere x the last 0-40 years.
They must have known.
I am now beginning to wonder how many buildings this affects world wide. Unless it was just the UK who went for the cheap option - which frankly wouldn't surprise me.
Here is one article on US codes, etc.. it appears that the shite cladding made by an American company can not be used here in the US same way it was used in the UK... I cant find another article I read on US codes regarding this crap.. I will keep looking for it.. I dont know if Dubai still allows it but apparently Australia does have lots of buildings clad in this shite even tho they have known about the risk since 2010.. [8|] I guess the whole world knows about this dangerous crap now..
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"But by 1998, regulators in the United States — where deaths from fires are historically more common than in Britain or Western Europe — began requiring real-world simulations to test any materials to be used in buildings taller than a firefighter’s two-story ladder. “The U.S. codes say you have to test your assembly exactly the way you install it in a building,” said Robert Solomon, an engineer at the National Fire Protection Association, which is funded in part by insurance companies and drafts model codes followed in the United States and around the world.
No aluminum cladding made with pure polyethylene — the type used at Grenfell Tower — has ever passed the test, experts in the United States say. The aluminum sandwiching always failed in the heat of a fire, exposing the flammable filling. And the air gap between the cladding and the insulation could act as a chimney, intensifying the fire and sucking flames up the side of a building. Attempts to install nonflammable barriers at vertical and horizontal intervals were ineffective in practice.
As a result, American building codes have effectively banned flammable cladding in high-rises for nearly two decades. The codes also require many additional safeguards, especially in new buildings or major renovations: automatic sprinkler systems, fire alarms, loudspeakers to provide emergency instructions, pressurized stairways designed to keep smoke out and multiple stairways or fire escapes."
http://www.post-gazette.com/news/world/2017/06/24/Why-Grenfell-Tower-Burned-Regulators-Put-Cost-Before-Safety/stories/201706240112
"London tower fire could happen here: Australian buildings cloaked in flammable cladding
Australian buildings are cloaked in "millions of square metres" of flammable cladding, and authorities have been aware of the safety threat since at least 2010."
http://www.smh.com.au/national/london-tower-fire-could-happen-here-australian-buildings-cloaked-in-flammable-cladding-20170615-gwrpfu.html
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