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posted by martyb on Monday June 26 2017, @07:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the Going-With-The-Crowd dept.

From ABC News:

The list of high-rise apartment towers in Britain that have failed fire safety tests grew to 60, officials said Sunday, revealing the mounting challenge the government faces in the aftermath of London's Grenfell Tower fire tragedy.

All of the buildings for which external cladding samples were so far submitted failed combustibility tests, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said. As of late Sunday, that includes 60 towers from 25 different areas of the country — double the figure given a day earlier.

More from the BBC:

The Local Government Association said some councils have introduced 24-hour warden patrols to mitigate the risk before cladding is removed.

It said in a statement: "Where cladding fails the test, this will not necessarily mean moving residents from tower blocks.

"In Camden, the decision to evacuate was based on fire inspectors' concerns about a combination of other fire hazards together with the cladding."

So it looks like, far from an isolated thing, basically everyone had the bright idea to do this.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @02:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @02:29PM (#531321)

    Something I have always wondered about steel studs, having never used them, is its hard to destroy wiring by pulling it thru a wooden hole unless you're really screwing something up, but I imagine the sharp edges of steel studs makes pulling cable rather difficult without destroying the insulation.

    As always, it depends on local codes, but I expect most would forbid pulling NM cable through steel studs for precisely this reason.

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