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What efficiencies are the "upgrade" of cladding supposed to achieve? Are the heating savings significant, or are these "improvements" motivated more by the aesthetics?
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As I said way up thread the product sheets I've found for Reynobond ACM (the cladding used on Grenfall) don't even mention its thermal properties:
https://www.arconic.com/aap/north_america/catalog/pdf/brochures/Reynobond_Brochure.pdfI understand it there is some insulation benefit but the main benefit of the product seems to be looking better with no maintenance.
starfish&coffee
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Amazing.
Fire safety aside, right wingers just shouldn't be trusted with aesthetic decisions. Whilst the entire userbase of instagram are collectively creaming their pants over brutalist architecture, Kensington and Chelsea decide to "upgrade" their housing stock so that it ends up looking like something out of an industrial park in Swindon. If they had just stuck to upgrading the windows, the Greenfell Tower could have looked quite cool.