As fire-safety regulations continue to evolve, property managers are facing the mammoth task to make their buildings safe.
AliDeck recently supplied their aluminium decking to a retrofit project at a one-year old high-rise development in London. Composite decking had been used on the hundreds of balconies on the site which failed a subsequent EWS1 fire-safety survey, resulting in thousands of pounds of material having to be disposed of to bring the building to compliance.
Richard Izzard, AliDeck managing director, said
“We are still seeing new developments using composite decking on balconies, which is non-compliant and will need to be replaced.”