Chalcots Estate Tower Building Cladding, North London Housing Estate ACM Panels News
Chalcots Estate Cladding
Block of Flats Development in Swiss Cottage / Camden area, British Capital City, England, UK
24 Jun 2017
Chalcots Estate Building Cladding
Is the Chalcots Estate Evacuation Needed"
The Chalcots Estate is a council housing estate on Adelaide Road in Swiss Cottage in the London Borough of Camden.
Chalcots was refurbished in 2006-09 by the same firm, Rydon, that oversaw work at Grenfell Tower in 2015-16. It appears that Reynobond ACM panels were also used.
4mm thck ACM panels are noted on the Harley Facades website page on this work (link further down this post). Their website does not appear to state what filled the panels, this is of crucial importance. Omnis supplied Harley with the cladding panels, just like at Grenfell Tower.
The Estate comprises five high-rise tower blocks with a total of 711 or 717 flats, in four identical 23-storey towers and one smaller 19-storey block.
Five towers – titled Taplow, Burnham, Bray, Blashford and Dorney:

The blocks were built in two stages, with approvals being given in 1965 and 1966, and construction in 1967 and 1968.
In 2012, there was a fire in the estate’s Taplow Block, where the fire-resistant rock-wool insulation and fire-resistant sealant between floors meant that the fire was contained:

The fire in the 17th-floor flat led to the evacuation of more than 100 residents: it was started by a candle in a fla...