650ft skyscraper is engulfed in flames

[Paul Ringstrom]

Said to be a façade fire caused by flammable exterior cladding.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19826850/ ... -grenfell/

seems like China's building code needs updating.

[outside in]

rigid board insulation applied to the exterior, I"ll bet.

[Roderick Grant]

One would think the Grenfell Tower fire would have taught a lesson. Apparently not.

[SDR]

Mr Wright was sometimes seduced by the building-products industry to try a new material---not always with success. A copper foil substance that might have looked like a proper copper roof was applied to the pitched portions of the Bazett house roof; it didn't last. Both the Jacobs house and the Hanna house had novel ceiling paneling which was, sooner (Jacobs) or later (Hanna) replaced or covered over with better materials.

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[Roderick Grant]

Strange that this hasn't made the major news outlets. Grenfell went on for weeks, but this one , not so much.

[DRN]

The fire has seen coverage:
https://www.google.com/search?q=china+b ... =553&dpr=2

The investigation of the fire in England has been relatively transparent, allowing architects to gain an understanding of what happened and hopefully act to prevent recurrences. Building owners and operators might be less interested, or rather, unwilling to take the big financial leap of remedial action on similar conditions. I fear this will not be the last fire of this type.

I once read, “Far more is learned from one failure than 100 successes”. I’d like more open disclosure to the architectural, engineering, and construction communities of the technical details of these failures once they are known.