https://www.theguardian.c(...)te-city-latimer-roadquote:Residents at the block were so concerned about fire safety after the recent refurbishment works in March that they requested an independent fire safety assessor to come in to review the safety of the building, but their request was rejected, the Labour councillor responsible for the block said.
She said tenants were concerned about the fire risk during and after recent refurbishment works and repeatedly raised their concerns with her.
Judith Blackman, Labour housing spokeswoman and who is on the board of the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), which runs the council’s homes, said:
We were constantly being fobbed off. All our concerns were being ignored. Our request for an independent safety adjudicator was turned down. We were told it was unnecessary.
Blackman said she raised the concerns of the residents with colleagues on the board so frequently that the board tried to have her removed from her position. The board said there was no need to employ an independent assessor, told her that their own checks were adequate, and said it “was not necessary to fund or instruct an independent adjudicator at this time”.
Blackman said:
I was treated like I was a nuisance. I raised 19 complaints on behalf of individual residents. Every single time we were told that the board had satisfied itself that the fire safety was fine. We were told that the go inside and wait policy was absolutely right.
In a letter to KCTMO, Blackman shared the residents’ concerns with the group. “I can’t think it all my 34 years on the Council of anything that has gone on for so long in such an irresponsible manner and caused such concern to residents,” she wrote.
Zogenaamde Rainscreen Cladding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainscreenquote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:44 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Dat plaatmateriaal waarmee de gevel zou zijn bedekt, is bekend welke dat is?
Afhankelijk van de constructie hebben beiden hun voor en nadelen ook bij brand, wil je echt brandveilig bouwen zou je beter volledig geimpregneerde boomstammen gebruiken.quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:41 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
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Tja, bij een grote en hete brand verdampt het kristalwater en is beton zijn stevigheid kwijt.
Waarom bouwen we in Europa dit soort gebouwen uit beton en niet uit staal zoals in de VS?
In vorig topic staat een posting met wat details van dit gebouw op skyscrapers.com oid. Misschien dat je daar wat aan hebtquote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:44 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Dat plaatmateriaal waarmee de gevel zou zijn bedekt, is bekend welke dat is?
Het zou gaan om Reynobond (bron).quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:44 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Dat plaatmateriaal waarmee de gevel zou zijn bedekt, is bekend welke dat is?
Rydon is het bedrijf dat de renovatie heeft gedaan (of iig het projectmanagement), het is niet de leverancier van de wandbekleding.quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:49 schreef motorbloempje het volgende:
http://www.rydon.co.uk/wh(...)udies/grenfell-tower
Dit is de leverancier, overigens.
Die krijgen een zodanige juridische rekening dat ze failliet gaan.quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:49 schreef motorbloempje het volgende:
http://www.rydon.co.uk/wh(...)udies/grenfell-tower
Dit is was de leverancier, overigens.
Omdat?quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:52 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
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Die krijgen een zodanige juridische rekening dat ze failliet gaan.
Ze hebben we hun goedkeuring verleent als trekker van het project. Dan ben je dus ook eindverantwoordelijke.quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:52 schreef James1988 het volgende:
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Rydon is het bedrijf dat de renovatie heeft gedaan (of iig het projectmanagement), het is niet de leverancier van de wandbekleding.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/n(...)-beefing-up-10622601quote:Tory minister warned against beefing up fire safety rules to include sprinklers because it could discourage house building
A former Tory housing minister warned MPs against beefing up fire safety regulations, because it could discourage house building.
Brandon Lewis admitted automatic sprinklers save lives, but said it was not the government's responsibility to encourage developers to fit them.
It was revealed this morning that successive ministers had "sat on" evidence that suggested thousands of tower blocks like London's Grenfell House were vulnerable to fire.
The coroner's report into a 2009 blaze in London recommended building regulations be updated, and called for developers refurbishing high-rise blocks to be encouraged to install sprinkler systems.
But five years later, Mr Lewis told MPs: "We believe that it is the responsibility of the fire industry, rather than the Government, to market fire sprinkler systems effectively and to encourage their wider installation."
He said the Tory government had committed to being the first to reduce regulations nationwide, pledging a one in-two out rule.
He added: "The cost of fitting a fire sprinkler system may affect house building—something we want to encourage—so we must wait to see what impact that regulation has."
Earlier in his comments, made in a 2014 Westminster Hall debate to mark Fire Sprinklers Week, he admitted: "Sprinklers work. We know that. No one can deny it.
"The myths around sprinklers have been well explained and debunked here today.
"They are an effective way of controlling fires and of protecting lives and property."
Theresa May's new chief of staff Gavin Barwell was the latest of a string of Tory ministers to pledge a review of building regulations, after a damning report into the fire at Lakanal House in London in 2009, which claimed six lives.
London Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick this morning said the Lakanal House should have been a "wake up call."
He said: “Four years later, we’re still trying to get the government to undertake that review.”
He said successive ministers had said they were “looking at it”, adding the delay had been worsened by responsibility for building regulations being split between three ministers.
He added: “You’d have to ask them why they’ve sat on it for four years.”
In response to this morning's devastating fire in West London: "A review took place after the fire in Camberwell and the government has that review.
"I believe we need to ask questions about what facilities and resources have been given to every local authority that has tower blocks within their area, and frankly most do."
Asked what should happen to government ministers, he said: "Obviously ministers that served and received those reports must be questioned.
"But today every focus and every concentration must be on saving and protecting life."
The Tories ignored two coroner’s reports into fatal high rise fires that called for safety improvements.
The inquiry into the Shirley Towers fire, that led to the death of two firefighters, the coroner wrote to the then Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to press for sprinklers to be fitted in all high rise properties.
The same call was made by the coroner Frances Kirkham into the 2009 Lakanal House fire in Southwark, London, which killed six people
Ms Kirkham wrote a Rule 43 letter to Mr Pickles in 2013 setting out a series of recommendations.
Rule 43 letters are only sent when the coroner believes there is a risk other deaths will occur unless action is taken.
Ms Kirkham told Mr Pickles the Department for Local Government should retro-fit sprinklers in all high rise residential properties.
The coroner also said building regulations should be updated to take into account the cladding of buildings and she called for updated advice on whether residents caught in a fire should stay put or try to escape.
In addition the coroner said landlords should keep up to date information on who was living in the building and design plans to help firefighters in “information boxes” by the property.
Mr Pickles rejected the call for the retro fitting of sprinklers. He also dismissed calls for landlords to provide more information to aid firefighters.
“We have considered your recommendation that those responsible for residential high rise buildings be required to provide relevant information for operational purposes in premises information boxes.
“However, on balance we consider that a regulatory requirement is unnecessary and disproportionate,” he wrote in a letter to Ms Kirkham.
An investigation by the magazine Inside Housing found that since the 2009 Lakanal House disaster only 18 of the 2,925 council owned high rises have fitted sprinklers in some of the flats.
Als kunststoffen als Polyethyleen eenmaal branden dan branden ze blijkbaar erg goed.quote:
Mits de installatie goed gebeurt:quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:57 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Als materiaal is goedgekeurd voor woningbouw kan je een aannemer het niet verwijten dat deze het gebruiken.
Bron:quote:"One architect, who has been responsible for several re-cladding projects but asked not to be named, said that the common rainscreen system used on Grenfell Tower is designed to include fire-breaks at every floor and around every window.
He said that if installed correctly, flames should not be able to sweep through the cavities behind the panels because of the fire retardant breaks.
“The issue is the cavity between the existing wall and the rainscreen,” he said. “There needs to be firestops at every floor level and around every window.”
It is not yet known what caused the fire or how it spread. Rydon, the contractor said it “met all required building control, fire regulation and health and safety standards”.
The architect added that 1970s blocks such as Grenfell featured “one escape stair which is not designed for a mass evacuation, but is designed for a small number of people to get out whose individual flats are on fire”.
He said the “stay put” strategy which was in place at Grenfell was intended to stop people getting hurt if a small number of flats were on fire.
“The ‘stay put’ strategy clearly wouldn’t work when the fire is roaring up outside the building,” he said. “That is a strategy that would lead to certain death in the circumstances of this fire.”
Dan nog hangt strafbaarheid van vele factoren af.quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:58 schreef James1988 het volgende:
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Mits de installatie goed gebeurt:
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Bron:
The Guardian
Eens, maar het is in de bouwwereld niet ongebruikelijk om met onderaannemers en onder-onderaannemers te werken.quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 17:54 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
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Ze hebben we hun goedkeuring verleent als trekker van het project. Dan ben je dus ook eindverantwoordelijke.
Als de fabrikant aangeeft dat die tussenstukken verplicht zijn om de brandveiligheid te garanderen, dan is het klip en klaar: zonder tussenstukken is er geen brandveilige situatie. Een aannemer heeft dan geblunderd door niet conform instructies de boel te installeren.quote:Op woensdag 14 juni 2017 18:03 schreef hottentot het volgende:
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Dan nog hangt strafbaarheid van vele factoren af.
Stel de wet stelt als norm een vertraging van 5 minuten als eis, stel de vertraging met tussenstukken is 20 min, en zonder 6 minuten, dan is er wettelijk nog steeds helemaal niet mis mee.
En zelfs als het zo is dat het tussenstukken beter is, wie stelt ze verplicht, wie heeft de tekeningen gemaakt, wie heeft dit goedgekeurd, wie heeft dit gebouwd etc..
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