Following the fire that devastated Grenfell Tower in west London this week
leaving at least dead and many more injured questions have arisen over the cladding that was fitted to the exterior InquiryAs in the case of other privately owned high rise apartment blocks
the cost of removing the dangerous ACP cladding from NEO will fall on the owners of the buildings apartments.InquiryThe government has been accused of downplaying the fire risk posed by the type of cladding that burned ferociously on a Bolton student housing block on Friday and of refusing help to worried
InquiryThe Neo fire spread rapidly through cladding from its source
which firefighters said was a discarded cigarette on a balconyMFB AAP Clearly a facade fire has serious consequences.InquiryThe performance based approach leaves the field open to alternative solutions
and innovationRecent research by the University of Melbourne has looked at the key role of designers specialist consultants and contractors as the gatekeepers of quality and safety when it comes to the construction of facadesIt is these experts who should collaborate calculate risks and make arguments and InquirySo a fire starting in aluminium composite cladding on the fifth floor of a building
for instance can spread all directions up thanks to flames and smoke in cavities down because hot liquid Inquirythe non compliant application of ACP for external wall claddingHeat from a fire will conduct quickly to the core through thin aluminium COMBUSTIBLE CORE Core loses ability to bind
causing outer skins to deform and delaminate Type of Construction determines the level of fire resistance that particular elements of the building must achieve.InquiryThe fire that recently broke out in the storey Sulafa Tower in Dubai Marina is the latest in a string of high rise blazes in DubaiIt comes just four months after a fire destroyed dozens of apartments in the Ajman One complex and seven months since the blaze that engulfed the storey Address Downtown Hotel on New Years Eve.The Torch apartment building also went up in flames last year
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