I think they were privately owned. I believe a lot of social housing is privately owned now in the UK. Maggie sold off most of the council houses for a song.
Whenever you have an argument with someone, there comes a moment where you must ask yourself, whatever your political persuasion, 'am I the Nazi?'
I think they were privately owned. I believe a lot of social housing is privately owned now in the UK. Maggie sold off most of the council houses for a song.
Reads like it's council owned ta me?
"The tower is managed by Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), the largest tenant management organisation (TMO) in England, on behalf of Kensington & Chelsea Council. The TMO has a board comprising eight residents, four Council-appointed members, and three independent members."
Same response I gave to you the first time Shoddy:
"The point is you gutter snipe, that when you buy an apartment (or any other finished dwelling sold as a product) you don't know that the developer and his shit head regulatory mates are gambling with your life by substituting substandard products that don't meet code/standards."
You could say the same about anything. So what's this all got to do with investors? Or are you just letting off steam?
Apparently this product is wrote expensive if you tell people it conforms to code and applicable standards.
Polyisocyanurate Foam Insulation (PIR) is the most expensive form of insulation on the market. It is also the most efficient when it comes to thermal performance.
In the UK, thermal performance of buildings is written into the building codes. New builds have to meet a U value. These old tower blocks had no insulation in the walls and were prone to damp ingress through the concrete walls.
The cladding system used was an approved and widely used method. The oustide of the wall is clad in 150mm PIR with a treated counter batten over the top creating a 38mm air gap. An aluminium outer skin is fixed to the counter batten.
As PIR has a foil facing on either side, it is fire rated as Class O in Europe (surface spread of flame). However, the foam core itself is flammable and the edges of the boards do not have a foil facing. These edges are exposed to the air gap above the windows separated only by a thin steel perforated mesh.
Any flame which breaks through a window, will lick up through the perforated mesh onto the exposed edge of the first board above the window. Once the core of the board is alight, the flame will travel up the air gap and behind the aluminium facing. Fire fighting with hoses won't do anything because the aluminium facing is protecting the burning material.
The aluminium facing will only fall away once the timber counter batten has burned off.
The problem is not so much in the material but in the configuration of the cladding system.
Whoever came up with this idea is a complete moron.
Sadly, there are millions of buildings all over the planet clad in exactly the same way. This one is in the US.
Matthew, 30 Jan 2016, 09:21 AM Your simplistic view is so flawed it is not worth debating. The current oversupply will be swallowed in 12 months. By the time dumb shits like you realise this prices will already be rising.
ACM refers to Aluminium Composite Material, which is the same combustible product for fuelling nearly a dozen major high-rise fires in the past decade. It happened in Melbourne (2014). In 2012 after the Mermoz Tower was refurbished with flammable cladding one person got killed and another six people injured in Roubaix France.
What's got me is that the new cladding apparently was fixed onto wood batoning. If that's correct from what I have been told, if a moron decides to put on three types of cladding, all fixed onto***** wood batoning***... would a place go up like a tinder box in hell.
Newjerk? can you try harder than dig up another person's blog. My first promo was with Billabong and my name in English is modified with a T, am Perth born but also lived in Sydney to make my $$ It's Absolutely Fabulous if it includes brilliant locations, & high calibre tenants..what more does one want? Understand the power of the two "P"" or be financially challenged Even better when there is family who are property mad and one is born in some entitlements.....Understand that beautiful women are the exhibitionists we crave attention, whilst hot blooded men are the voyeurs ... A stunning woman can command and takes pleasure in being noticed. Seems not too many understand what it means to hold and own props and get threatened by those who do. Banks are considered to be law abiding and & rather boring places yeah not true . A bank balance sheet will show capital is dwarfed by their liabilities this means when a portions of loans is falling its problems for the bank.
"The tower is managed by Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO), the largest tenant management organisation (TMO) in England, on behalf of Kensington & Chelsea Council. The TMO has a board comprising eight residents, four Council-appointed members, and three independent members."
Yes, owned by the council, but looks like they have outsourced it's management to a private company. It's very common in the UK to have private companies having a very close relationship with government. Tories love it, as it allows them to have 'smaller' government.
Whenever you have an argument with someone, there comes a moment where you must ask yourself, whatever your political persuasion, 'am I the Nazi?'
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