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Ed Pawlowski

On 7/2/2017 7:54 PM, wrote:
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, limiting how long people need to be
displaced - but maybe there are also other deficiencies that need to
be fixed before the towers are safe to live in - like maybe installing
fire and smoke alarms? Or maybe 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)

I hear people bitching all the time about codes, testing, inspections,
and such, but with proper codes in place this would not happen. Most of
the blame has to go to the agency that writes the codes there.