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by gerdesj 1813 days ago
"Similar to the Grenfell Tower fire in Uk"

No it isn't quite the same. I recently had a look at the docs about Grenfell. That's here: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/aluminium-composite-material-cla...

I haven't quite got to the bottom of whether the standards relating to fire was broken or whether the guidance for builders had a hole in it that allowed for what we now know as sub standard cladding.

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The unquiry is still ongoing, but firstly the fire safety ceritifucate was forged, as second its not just the cladding, there were missing firebreaks, no evacuation route for disabled people, not functioning fire alarms and smoke extraction and countless other issues in the bulding - if it was just cladding half the residents wouldn't have coocked alive

https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/grenfell-contracto...

My point was about whether the standards themselves were wrong.

You mention that the fire safety cert. was forged, they missed out firebreaks and there was a lack of escape routes. Also inadequate alarms and several other failings.

That is "just" crass negligence (dangerous and as it turns out massively fatal, negligence)

My point is that there also seems to be a possible systemic failure. There seem to be a few document releases since the disaster, of updates to standards. That implies that the standards themselves were inadequate and that is also a problem.