#EPS "The façade consisted of 80mm flame-retarded expanded polystyrene (EPS) with mesh and render and mounted on 25mm thick chipboard, which was the formwork left in place" 
#EPS Feb 2009
#EPS April 1996 Dusseldorf Airport 17 people died.
Aug 2009. Miskolc, Hungary. 3 people died. "The ventilation shafts had been wrongly designed, without fire breaks, and allowed the smoke to flow into the flats above." Bad construction quality in the EWS also contributed & it was summer, windows open.
Dijon, France, 7 died, Nov 2010. It had fire breaks, as did the Berlin fire above. "Neither the thin organic render applied, nor the Cellular Glass barriers were efficient in preventing flames from igniting the #EPS insulation and spreading upwards"
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