Residents in large buildings are unsafe
Residents in large buildings are unsafe.
How long the residents in large commercial & residential buildings be allowed to live in unsafe conditions?
After every large scale residential fire, a commission is setup by the respective governments to make recommendations in the regulatory changes in the system, but how effective the residential building owners adopt new regulations and how effective the metropolitan city authorities enforce those new recommendations?
Are they really safe after having had learning from much larger scale building fires such as The Grenfell Fire? Dame Judith Hackitt observed, the housing industry is slow to see the adoption of recommendation set out by the Hackitt report after the Grenfell Fire and buildings are no safer than they were before the fire.
Are there improvements in transparency and compliance of fire safety equipment maintenance in residential buildings?
These disastrous incidents are warning to take not proactive but at least reactive steps to ensure that history does not repeat itself.
Many metro-city authorities and the building owners have oversight over the safety equipment in their properties or how effectively they are being maintained.
Every large metropolitan city authorities need a comprehensive study of their Current compliance processes to fix shortcomings to make it fit for purpose.Landlords need to be more accountable and enforced to take control of fire safety compliance and not just keeping records. Create audit able system of GPS and time stamp that proves the contractor was actually at that location.
Lives depend on essential fire safety equipment installed and its maintenance. Many authorities are still depend on their age old paper based systems, digitization of these records will enable gathering of large scale data and intelligence and make insights into the big picture through growing data science and analytics.
Chief Executive Officer Underground Command and Safety (Retired Asst Fire Marshal, City of Seattle)
5 年Modern buildings are much safer when built and maintained per modern regulations
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5 年Luckily, fires are statistically rare events, but when they occur consequences can be devastating...
Fa?ade Cavity Protection System designer retrospectively fitted protection for existing Fa?ade provisions. THE ONE SOLUTION TO THE CLADDING CRISIS. Smoke Control Consultant Surveyor Engineered solutions
5 年Not only in large buildings Globally more lives are lost annually in single and up to 5 storey buildings, generally due to smoke inhalation. We are carrying out recladding and knowingly fitting Non Fire Rated aperture closers!!!! and indeed in New Build Projects! So in answer to the question we will probably never learn!
Engineering Dept. Head at Meshkat Solutions
5 年Thats a good question- how long it will take to ensure fire safety in large buildings? I think, we forget incidents quickly but fire does not. It can take lives and damage property at any time!