Fire Safety Science Digital Archive

At the request of the Ministry of Education an investigation has been made of the fire hazards in multi-storey schools having external walls faced with combustible material, such as "Holoplast". The primary consideration, namely whether the use of such materials would affect escape from a building involved in fire, was examined by comparative tests on models using noncombustible and combustible external walls. The exposure hazard with external walls of Holoplast was also investigated.