On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 14:38:28 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 7/2/2017 12:13 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4659106/181-tower-blocks-51-areas-fail-cladding-tests.html.


Never should have been used. Never should have been made with flammable
material. The Brits were dumb to allow it when others do not.

I wonder though, can it be removed and later replaced instead of
evacuating everyone?
British LAW only allows it on buildings under 18 meters, IIRC (still
foolishness, but - - - ) and yes, it should be possible to strip it
off of every affected building, limitting how long people need to be
displaced - but mabee there are also other deficiencies that need to
be fixed before the towers are safe to live in - like mabee installing
fire and smoke alarms? Or mabee even sprinkler systems?? Kinda hard to
make the IMPORTANT upgrade though - a second staircase for evacuation
purposes.

I really cannot see how they were allowed to be built that way in the
first place - That cannot have been a simple lack of oversight like
letting the wrong version of a cladding material to be retrofitted (or
allowing a flammable material to be mislabelled as the non-flammable
version, if that is what happened)