“We’re not trying to impose ourselves; it’s just offering advice and if people want it we can spend the time with them.’’ Chambers said they were going to start the door-knocking in Twizel’s North-West Arch which was deemed “an at-risk area”. “There are a few of them around and in Twizel, but we can’t do them all at once.’’
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Aerial view of Twizel showing North-West Arch, one of the areas South Canterbury fire risk management officer Craig Chambers says is at high risk of fire. (File photo) Chambers said over the past 18 months Fenz has been evaluating high risk areas around the country, and in South Canterbury parts of Twizel, Lake Takapō/Tekapo, and Blandswood in Peel Forrest were highlighted because of their fire risk.
How they built Grenfell Away from the media spotlight, the Grenfell Tower inquiry is quietly disentangling a web of corporate spin and scandal. In December 2007, an Irish building materials company called Kingspan tested the fire safety of one of its insulation materials, Kooltherm K15. It was tested on a rig mocked up like a building, to mimic how the product might be used in real life, with aluminium cladding panels on a steel frame six metres tall. It created a “raging inferno”, according to one of the test’s observers from Kingspan. The Building Research Establishment (BRE), the certification body that carried out the test, had to stop it early because it risked setting fire to the laboratory. Even after the heat source was extinguished, the product continued to burn on its own.