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छज्जा गिरने से दो महिलाओं की मौत हो गई। मृतकों में राजन…
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MOA Guidance Regarding Potential Roof Collapse
Issued March 7, 2023
· In the last few weeks Anchorage as experienced 3 (known) partial roof collapses involving the failure of wooden trusses having metal gang nail plates.
· We do not know the exact mechanisms that initiated the failures.
· We do know the roof trusses failed, resulting in catastrophic roof collapse.
· The weight of snow being supported was less than the design value of 40 pounds per square foot for the two most recent failures.
· The collapses have occurred in commercial construction built between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s.
· The roof trusses were constructed from wood with metal gang nail plates.
o Top chord bearing parallel cord trusses demand extra attention; however, a common bottom chord bearing pitched-roof type of truss has also failed too.
· If you own a building falling within these parameters, we ask that you remove the snow/ice from the roof as soon as possible.
· We ask that snow removal contractors prioritize these types of buildings.
· Further guidance will be provided as we better understand the mechanisms causing these failures.
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“Safety isn’t expensive, its priceless" - Jerry Smith
For five years the government has known that school roofs constructed with lightweight concrete known as RAAC were liable to collapse without warning. In 2018 a school roof in Gravesend Kent caved in on a Saturday, so luckily no one was injured.
This structural failure led to an enquiry by the Standing Committee on Structural Safety (Scoss). This committee reported in 2019 that a similar collapse had occurred in a retail unit using the same type of concrete planking used in the construction of many schools. As a result, says New Civil Engineer:
“As the lifespan of the planks is estimated to be around 30 years, Scoss is now recommending that all planks installed before 1980 are replaced.” (14/05/19)
This clearly hasn’t happened. For reasons of cost, the safety of our children in schools built using RAAC has been deliberately ignored. It was estimated that a yearly fund of £7billion was needed to replace these buildings but the Treasury only allocated £3billion.
Money before lives is nothing new as far as Tory policy is concerned. But why the sudden change in heart? Why decide to close schools only a few days before the start of the new school year when the Tories have deliberately ignored the seriousness of the problem for years?
On the BBC Today programme this morning (01/09/230 , amid all the platitudes rolled out by the Schools Minister Nick Gibb, the true reason slipped out. During the summer break, in a school previously labelled as "safe" a roof beam collapsed.
In other words, even though for the past four years the government has known that roofs with RAAC were liable to collapse without warning it wasn’t until another school roof collapsed during this summer that they took the safety of children’s lives seriously.
Those school rooms with roofs that are deemed “unsafe" will either be abandoned, the children being taught in temporary classrooms, or have their roofs propped up in some way, making them little better than a building site.
Our children deserve so much better and the Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan, should resign immediately.
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Integra: Alright, I'm here. What needs to be fixed this time?
*Alucard, looking at Pip*
Pip, looking around the room: I guess... close your eyes and point? You can't get it wrong
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