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| - Ronan Point was a 23-storey tower block in Newham, East London, which suffered a fatal partial collapse due to a gas explosion 16 May 1968. Ronan Point, named after Harry Ronan (a former Chairman of the Housing Committee of the London Borough of Newham), was part of the wave of tower blocks built in the 1960s as cheap, affordable prefabricated housing for inhabitants of the West Ham region of London. The tower was built by Taylor Woodrow Anglian, using a technique known as Large Panel System building or LPS. This involved casting large concrete prefabricated sections off-site, then bolting them together to construct the building.
- It was named after Harry Louis Ronan, a former Chairman of the Housing Committee of the London Borough of Newham, and was part of the wave of cheep and quickly built tower blocks constructed in West Ham during the 1960s as cheap by Taylor Woodrow Anglian using the Danish invented Large Panel System building (LPS). It was built between ?/?/1966 and the 11th of March, 1968. Some speculation still swirls around the idea it was an IRA and\or Italian Red Brigades bomb, but it is officially denied and both the IRA and the Italian Red Brigades have made no clam of responsibility for it either.
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| - Ronan Point was a 23-storey tower block in Newham, East London, which suffered a fatal partial collapse due to a gas explosion 16 May 1968. Ronan Point, named after Harry Ronan (a former Chairman of the Housing Committee of the London Borough of Newham), was part of the wave of tower blocks built in the 1960s as cheap, affordable prefabricated housing for inhabitants of the West Ham region of London. The tower was built by Taylor Woodrow Anglian, using a technique known as Large Panel System building or LPS. This involved casting large concrete prefabricated sections off-site, then bolting them together to construct the building. Building started in 1966, and construction was completed on 11 March 1968. It was demolished in 1986, and was dismantled piece by piece instead of being blown up with explosives, it was discovered that Ronan Point had not been constructed properly and its structural integrity was compromised.
- It was named after Harry Louis Ronan, a former Chairman of the Housing Committee of the London Borough of Newham, and was part of the wave of cheep and quickly built tower blocks constructed in West Ham during the 1960s as cheap by Taylor Woodrow Anglian using the Danish invented Large Panel System building (LPS). It was built between ?/?/1966 and the 11th of March, 1968. The 22-storey tower block in Newham LB, partly collapsed on 16th of May, 1968 when a small gas stove explosion demolished a critical load-bearing wall, removing the structural supports to the four flats above, causing the cascading causing the progressive collapse of the south-east corner of the building in which 4 were killed and 17 were injured. The caused was found to be by both poor design and poor construction, such as the strengthening brackets which had been fitted during the post-blast rebuilding were in many cases were not properly attached. This and the initial structural weaknesses led to complete loss of public confidence in high rise residential buildings due to fears about wide spread corporate malfeasance and corner cutting, so the government chose to bring in several major changes in UK building regulations with in a few years of the event. Some speculation still swirls around the idea it was an IRA and\or Italian Red Brigades bomb, but it is officially denied and both the IRA and the Italian Red Brigades have made no clam of responsibility for it either.
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