General Chat

On the positive side - if it had been during a school day, someone would have spotted the smoke & hit the fire alarm.

My first thoughts were of the exam course work that could have been lost. If that was the case, the students have 9 months or so to resubmit.

A few years back there was a terrible fire at a primary school near here.

Like you, I was amazed how quickly that one took hold too in a relatively modern school. It was believed to have started with an electrical fault above a ceiling and spread quickly in the roof void.
Hopefully designs have been reviewed and checks put in place to prevent such devastation in future.

The main part was built using an el cheapo technique called CLASP. There are lots of schools built like this all over Hampshire - my mate was a qty surveyor with Hants CC at the time and he was scathing about the poor quality even when it was done to spec.

I guess the pupils will all have to go to Lancing College now where they will be surely welcome following up on T May's fine words. Or maybe not.

per ardua ad astra

The secondary school down the road went up in flames over the weekend.


What I found so shocking about the whole disaster was that a building that often contained over eight hundred people would go up quite as quickly as it did.