The Scotsman is off today with a front page and an editorial suggesting the Scottish Government is putting the lives of those living in tower blocks at risk of a Grenfell-type tragedy by not even having identified those with inflammable cladding.
It isn’t. It doesn’t need to.
Most high rise buildings in Scotland with new cladding adding in the last few decades, are covered in inflammable material but it doesn’t matter.
It doesn’t matter because the fire will be contained on one floor and residents will thus escape easily.
Why?
This:
Reader Gordon Darge wrote for us in January 2020:
As a chartered architect in Scotland for 40 years I can confirm that the Building Regulations Technical Standards Scotland have for two decades required cavity fire barriers
2.4 Cavities
Mandatory Standard
Standard 2.4
Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that in the event of an outbreak of fire within the building, the spread of fire and smoke within cavities in its structure and fabric is inhibited.
This includes for example, around the head, jambs and sill of an external door or window opening, at all floor levels and building corners etc. to prevent the spread of fire in building cavities. This would have prevented the spread of the fire at Grenfell Tower.
This is difficult and expensive to achieve and I can only guess that in England they did not follow the Scottish model because Westminster and the Tories were led by the vested interests of big business, property developers and large construction firms.
For anyone wanting more info see:
Cavity fire barriers prevent this:
The Chimney Effect
As I understand it, it is not so much the flammability of the material used as the construction of the external cladding to deny the spread of fire via a chimney effect.
Believe him?
It’s been tested at least twice.
A fire in 2021 which was contained within one floor and had no casualties:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-58046347According to BBC Scotland:
Residents of a multi-storey block of flats in Glasgow had to be evacuated after a fire broke out on the 17th floor. Fire crews were called to the block on Lincoln Avenue in the Knightswood area of the city at 04:08. Residents were safely removed from the building by the fire service and there were no casualties. A total of nine fire appliances attended the incident which took about five hours to bring under full control. A spokeswoman for Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: “Operations control mobilised nine appliances to Lincoln Avenue where the fire was affecting the 17th floor of the multi-storey block of flats.” The spokeswoman said residents from the 17th and 18th floors were removed and the fire has been extinguished.
No towering inferno.
And another in 2022:
From BBC Glasgow & West today [25/9/22]:
Firefighters have extinguished a blaze which broke out at a tower block in the south side of Glasgow.
Emergency services were alerted to the incident in Shawhill Road, Shawlands, at about 21:00 on Saturday.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service dispatched eight fire engines. Large plumes of smoke were seen coming from windows on the block’s upper floors.
The fire was reported as extinguished after 22:00. It is understood there were no reported casualties.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-63023916
Why did this fire not spread to other floors and with terrible consequences?
Simple: Cavity Fire Barriers.
There have been, as far as I can see, 3 deaths in 3 separate tower block fires, over the last decade or two, but in every case, there was only a single casualty in each and the fire did not spread to other floors.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Expect this story to be the lead on all radio Scotland broadcasts tomorrow along with the crap that Geissler vomits out on the TV after Kuennsberg does her bumf.
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THESE BLOODY LYING “english supporting” WHORES
DOING THE WESTMINSTER BIDDING AT EVER OPPORTUNITY
WHERE ARE THEY GETTING ALL THEIR MONEY TO RUN THIS RAG
IT IS NOT FROM ANY MISERABLE CIRCULATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last we checked it was 2000 so at £1 per copy That would not pay for distribution
Never mind the Exorbitant wages of reporters !!!!! if they still use reporters
By looks of fact finding OTS seventh year hacks
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Today’s ‘i’ had a similar story (page 6).
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Aye, even by Alistair Grant’s standard of journalism, searching for a contractor to “identify all high-rise flats in Scotland that” LIKELY “have dangerous cladding” has to have “and fire safety issues” tacked on the end to make the absurd marginally less absurd.
If as Alistair asserts it is “LIKELY”, would not Building Control and the Fire Officers have already triple-checked their records on what was proposed and what was verified during construction and ultimately signed off after inspection, to raise an alarm ?
It is this latter aspect which was the principal problem in the case of Grenfell, Building Control and Fire Officers were bypassed as ‘unnecessary red tape’, with the Contractor certifying his own work.
By all means examine differences in building standards and fire codes for Kensington and McHigh-Rise-ville in Scotland.
It was Tory Politics in Kensington which murdered those poor souls in Grenfell – There must be information expected from the Inquiry, and the Scotsman has been tasked with the diversion for Scots…
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I think that’s a good call Bob. It does seem that the “Scottish Media’s” modus operandi is to try and “prime” the Scottish audience with something big that is coming down the line down south.
We shall see if the Herald and BBC Scotland try and promote similar nonsense.
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They will…
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For interest – I’ve been posting in reddit recently. You might be surprised by the vitriol I get there.
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