{"id":3391,"date":"2017-06-20T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurosprinkler.org\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2017-06-21T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T12:57:10","slug":"croydon-council-to-retrofit-social-high-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/croydon-council-to-retrofit-social-high-rises\/","title":{"rendered":"Croydon council to retrofit social high-rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the disastrous fire in the unsprinklered Grenfell Tower in west London, Croydon council in south London has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk\/news\/15358389.Croydon_s_tallest_buildings_will_get_fire_sprinklers_as_a_response_the_the_Grenfell_Tower_block_disaster\/\">retrofit all 25 social high-rise buildings<\/a> in the borough that are 10 or more storeys high.<!--more--> Cardiff Council is considering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-south-east-wales-40328620\">a similar move<\/a>. Sheffield Council has retrofitted some high-rise blocks and over 500 houses.<\/p>\n<p>Sprinklers are extremely effective at dealing with high-rise residential fires, as shown by this <a href=\"http:\/\/eurosprinkler.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Compendium-of-medium-and-high-rise-sprinkler-saves-in-the-UK.pdf\">compendium of medium and high rise sprinkler saves in the UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the disastrous fire in the unsprinklered Grenfell Tower in west London, Croydon council in south London has decided to retrofit all 25 social high-rise buildings in the borough that are 10 or more storeys high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurosprinkler.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}