A glass panel has fallen from the eighth floor of architect Ian Simpson’s Beetham Tower in Birmingham.
The 6 × 3ft panel shattered at 6.30am on Sunday 8 July, raining fragments of glass 60ft to the street beneath.
The Beetham Organization, the tower’s developer, said the incident was a result of a build up of nickel sulphide build-up, an impurity that can accumulate within glass and cause it to break. Russell Markow, the tower’s project manager, described the incident as a “one-off”.
The incident is the third safety scare at the Beetham Tower since 2005. During construction in February 2005, a formwork table crashed to the ground from the 39th floor, and in November that year, four aluminium cladding panels fell from the top of the tower in high winds.
No comments yet