Faulty Electric Circuits Caused IMPZ Fire
The cause of the fire at a labour camp in the International Media Production Zone (IMPZ) on Saturday night is believed to have been caused due to an electrical fault, according to the IMPZ authorities.
Speaking to Construction Week, IMPZ spokesperson Yaqoob Al Zarooni said, “The fire was not a big one and it was tackled very quickly and caused no injuries. I believe the fire started due to a short circuit.”
Construction Week witnessed the fire first-hand as it ripped through four cabins of a temporary labour camp for workers of landscaping company Proscape, which is carrying out the IMPZ lake works. No injuries were reported.
Firefighters accompanied by the police and ambulances arrived on scene in under an hour and the fire was put out by about 1am.
At the time a spokesperson for Proscape said he thought the fire was due to a short circuit.
Previous fires have shown that poor MEP works were the cause and calls from experts to tighten regulations have been made in the past.
On Sunday, it was revealed that the cause for the fire at a Sharjah warehouse was due to poor MEP works.
“The standard of MEP work is generally very poor in the UAE,” said Iain Fryer, director of KMI International, a company that specialises in providing thermal imaging technology to check for MEP problems.
Often, problems are difficult to spot with the naked eye and this, claimed Fryer, is where thermal imaging has advantages.
“The cabling can look fine but then we’ll notice that it’s running much hotter than it should be and there’s actually a fire risk. Short circuiting is the reason for many fires and, as we saw recently in Sharjah, the results can be disastrous.”
Source: www.constructionweekonline.com
Speaking to Construction Week, IMPZ spokesperson Yaqoob Al Zarooni said, “The fire was not a big one and it was tackled very quickly and caused no injuries. I believe the fire started due to a short circuit.”
Construction Week witnessed the fire first-hand as it ripped through four cabins of a temporary labour camp for workers of landscaping company Proscape, which is carrying out the IMPZ lake works. No injuries were reported.
Firefighters accompanied by the police and ambulances arrived on scene in under an hour and the fire was put out by about 1am.
At the time a spokesperson for Proscape said he thought the fire was due to a short circuit.
Previous fires have shown that poor MEP works were the cause and calls from experts to tighten regulations have been made in the past.
On Sunday, it was revealed that the cause for the fire at a Sharjah warehouse was due to poor MEP works.
“The standard of MEP work is generally very poor in the UAE,” said Iain Fryer, director of KMI International, a company that specialises in providing thermal imaging technology to check for MEP problems.
Often, problems are difficult to spot with the naked eye and this, claimed Fryer, is where thermal imaging has advantages.
“The cabling can look fine but then we’ll notice that it’s running much hotter than it should be and there’s actually a fire risk. Short circuiting is the reason for many fires and, as we saw recently in Sharjah, the results can be disastrous.”
Source: www.constructionweekonline.com
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