The Ronan Point Tower Disaster 1968 | Plainly Difficult Documentary

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  @h74-s4h · 8 months ago

  The fact that the person who lit the stove survived the explosion tells you how minor that explosion was and how the building absolutely should not have collapsed

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• CR

  @crochetknit1845 · 4 years ago

  I got scared at the mention of "no need for skilled labor" what can possibly go wrong...

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  @polarbear1754 · 4 years ago

  The graphic "birth" of Newham was rather creepy 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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  @Matticitt · 3 years ago

  They were designed to be as simple to construct as possible, yet workers still managed to completely fail at their jobs. Quite impressive really.

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• KJ

  @kjamison5951 · 4 years ago

  Kudos to Webb for insisting on a forensic disassembly of Ronan Point. The situation was much worse than anyone could have anticipated at the time.

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  @sutherlandA1 · 3 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIvD2agDBnM&amp;t=910">15:10</a> you can see the blackened scorch marks on the outside of Ronan point in the pic. <br>In 1984 &nbsp;after the vacating and rehousing of residents they used the empty building to perform a test on how fire affected such structures, they found that fire spread and started engulfing the place so fast and severely that they cancelled the experiment as there was a high risk of the heat and fire severely weakening it and possibly falling and damaging neighbouring properties

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  @andon_RT · 4 years ago

  I wonder how many people Sam Webb saved - Not just in this tower block by making sure it was evacuated, but by the knock-on effects of them finding the shoddy work done on this one.

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  @buck2trips906 · 3 years ago

  Very interesting, as a 7 year old kid I watched the block being built from another tower block ( Pattison point, Fife Rd) &nbsp;about a mile away. Whilst having my breakfast every morning I could see the worker climbing to the top of the crane used to lift the sections. The block went up so quickly you could see 2 or 3 levels appear overnight. I can now see why. I also remember the day it collapsed, I thought it was thunder and lighting, I was still in bed so I just pulled the blanket over my head..... just a child hood memory.

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  @justinadcock4536 · 4 years ago

  John, As someone who works in construction, I thought I’d let you know a bit more detail. There’s about 1,500 LPS buildings still in use in the UK. 3-12 PSI is an insanely low psi to cause a collapse. Minimum you’d have 30PSI in a car tyre. But this “explosion” was no where near that pressure. When the more detailed analysis was done on the building, it was found that the wall panels was not in contact with the floor slabs creating a perfect void for fire to spread as well as all the weight of the building above being on the pins, rather than spread evenly over the wall panel. <br>And for the record, the company I work for will never do any work on LPS buildings, as we recognise that they all need to be flattened.

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  @thetman0068 · 4 years ago

  I’m a carpenter who works on remodels of wood construction residential homes in the US, particularly in a location where regulatory inspection is either nonexistent or poor at best. It is *shocking*, the things I’ve seen done in something as simple as a wooden house. I am not one to scare easily, yet I have found myself in the bowels of homes that genuinely frighten me because I can’t understand how the home hadn’t collapsed yet. <br><br>Of course it becomes my job to fix the problem, which I do. But it should be said, too often structures are under-built. Personally, I think overbuilding should be standard practice, but alas, economics demands the cheapest turd that can be polished enough to peddle to some sucker.

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• BR

  @BrettonFerguson · 4 years ago

  New Regulation: &nbsp;If the woman lighting the stove survives the explosion, the building should survive the explosion.

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• RP

  @rpgspree · 4 years ago

  Packing critical load-barring joints with rubbish isn&apos;t just &quot;unskilled&quot;, it&apos;s straight up stupid. Regardless of what the fools they hired to do the work did, someone onsite during the construction had to inspect and write off on their work.

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