Grenfell Tower: the road to ambiguity (part 4)
[continued from part 3] The dangers of desktop studies Kingspan give summary details of seven tests to BS 8414 of systems incorporating Kooltherm…
[continued from part 3] The dangers of desktop studies Kingspan give summary details of seven tests to BS 8414 of systems incorporating Kooltherm…
[continued from part 2] bba certificate 08/4582 (2008) for kooltherm K15 In October 2008, the BBA issued Agrément 08/4582 (Product Sheet 1) for…
[Continued from part 1] In part 1, I said that I would look in turn at three remarkable features of the BCA’s Technical…
In my last post, I took issue with the Government’s claim that the building regulations require all elements of the cladding system of…
The Government testing program The Grenfell Tower calamity highlighted the possible danger of employing combustible cladding on high rise buildings. Of the two…
(continued from Part 2) As a recap, I will try to summarise the position put forward by North and Booker in a number…
(continued from part 1) Booker and North’s main argument, as I understand it, is that: The 1999 ETRA Committee recommended that the BS…
Christopher Booker has argued (1 July 2017, also here) that our EU membership has been a contributory factor to the Grenfell Tower disaster. He…
In my previous two posts (part 1, part 2) I have outlined the two routes offered by the Building Regulations 2010 Approved Document…
In my last post, I pointed out the statutory requirement, contained in Article B4(1) of Schedule 1 of The Building Regulations 2010, that:…