Poor Residential Fire Stopping Installation Examples - a thread:
We’d like to capture as many image examples as possible in one place, we don’t need your building or location information, but helpful if you can add comment of what we’re looking at.
#FireStopping
#nbdbuk
Samples from a Fire Risk Assessment were submitted via DMs in confidence, all of these examples are from one three-storey block of 12 apartments less than 3 years old.
And a different building, you don’t need to be an expert to see that this is simply wrong. You do need to be an expert to decide on whether these meet regulations or not.
Injectaclad being used to remediate a cavity wall with missing cavity barriers in another building.
@teamgreenhalgh takes a moment to reflect on Grenfell, and to state that this tragedy must not happen again. That’s why the government appointed @DameJudithH to review building safety regulations.
@team_greenhalgh states that we will create meaningful change. The #buildingnsafetybill will deliver improvements across the entire building stock.
Retweeting this morning to ensure as many people as possible read this article. Do you have Kingspan k15 on your building? We found at least 20 buildings that mention it last night and an article that suggests it is on at least 240 high rise buildings in the UK
Spanish coverage: @elpais_inter
The ‘curse of Grenfell’ leaves thousands of apartments unsaleable in the British market
The owners live in houses with no way out because they have the same cladding that caused the London Tower fire that killed 72 people ow.ly/5sCj30rAtHT
Google translate: After the UK decided to leave the European Union, Milena Boeva, a 46-year-old Bulgarian, and her husband agreed to leave England, where they no longer felt welcome. Their intention was to sell their London flat before Brexit and use the money to settle in
Scotland and Spain, where they would escape the cold each winter. The plan, however, is now in limbo, and not because of the pandemic. "We have buyers because it is a beautiful apartment," says Boeva by phone, "but the banks refuse to lend them the money." Nobody is willing to