[SystemSafety] Changsha Fire

[Chris Johnson]

I would recommend Barbara Lane’s expert witness report to the Grenfell Public Inquiry if people want an account of the structural concerns and lack of compartmentalisation:

https://www.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/evidence/dr-barbara-lanes-expert-report

My evidence on the data, radio and other communications failures is here:

https://www.grenfelltowerinquiry.org.uk/evidence/professor-christopher-johnson

Chris Johnson, FRSE, FRAeS, FBCS,
Pro Vice Chancellor, Engineering and Physical Science.

Queen’s University, Belfast, 6 Malone Road, Belfast BT9 5BN.
Email: c.w.johnson at qub.ac.uk<mailto:c.w.johnson at qub.ac.uk>, Tel: 028 9097 6523.

“If we can Winter this out, we can Summer anywhere” (Seamus Heaney).
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On 16 Sep 2022, at 12:05, Peter Bernard Ladkin <ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de<mailto:ladkin at rvs.uni-bielefeld.de>> wrote:

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The pictures of the Telecom building in Changsha going up in flames look very similar to what
transpired at Grenfell.
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2022%2Fsep%2F16%2Fmajor-fire-breaks-out-at-skyscraper-in-changsha-china&data=05%7C01%7Cc.w.johnson%40qub.ac.uk%7C5169680d14734d0934b308da97d364cc%7Ceaab77eab4a549e3a1e8d6dd23a1f286%7C0%7C0%7C637989231431772802%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=odOPCz1WuQHgYF8w9zXoX0i%2F524kZjSmaZKeeQh5w9Q%3D&reserved=0

That is, it looks as if the facade is burning. Flames are not coming out storey by storey sideways -
they are going straight up over multiple storeys.

PBL

Prof. i.R. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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