Engineering360: "How buildings fail in an intense fire"

An interesting piece of research, as are the findings. Following the 'Grenfell' disaster in London, the structure was deemed 'unsafe' such that searches and forensic evidence gathering was notably delayed. Accordingly, it would appear based upon the research results that whilst the single lug connection may fail during a fire, the double angle lug may also during the cooling down period, possibly extenuated with the use of post fire cooling water application by fire services. Therefore, either fire services are made fully aware of this if the latter type of connection method is used utilising whatever coding employed on the plans that they may hold or alternatively, there is a clear need for an alternative connection mechanism.