There have been many fires recently in buildings constructed with lightweight sandwich panels which have caused large financial loss and business interruption. In one fire-the 1993 Sun Valley poultry factory fire in Hereford-two firemen lost their lives due, it is thought, to early collapse of plastic foam cored sandwich panels which added to the fire load and resulted in massive smoke production making rescue and firefighting extremely hazardous. This article is in three parts. Part 1 provided an overview and was published in the July 1998 Journal.
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