A Designers Nightmare

Lessons will be learned from Dubai Hotel fire.

I hope no Designer or Architect finds him or herself in this type of potential design failure situation in 2016. Its also likely to end your career in your chosen field prematurely, if your found liable..... Yikes!

Combustible construction components have ULC ratings for all interior materials from carpets to cabinets to incombustible rated door, frames and thresholds to help the spread of fire from one area to another, including intermittent firewall designed to do the same.

This particular fire appears to have spread externally racing up the exterior, consuming the exterior skin of the building. Clearly you can my Red Outline showing how the exterior skin has been consumed by heat and fire exposing the concrete fame of the Building. Its my speculation these were composite plastic panels contributed to spread the fire from one panel to the next, up the face of the structure.

To anyone that has ever burned plastic, you may have noticed it takes longer to burn, and causes endless smoke, even without a visible flame. No wonder the Tower is still shrouded in smoke a day later.