The Trias para Barcelona municipal group has demanded that the government of Mayor Jaume Collboni draw up a report in three months on the use of polyurethane in buildings in Barcelona built before the current building standard.
The spokesperson for Trias per Barcelona/Junts, Jordi Martí Galbis, and councilors Damià Calvet and Francina Vila registered a request last Friday at City Hall in which they also asked what technical and preventive measures will be taken so that it cannot happen to the capital. Catalan an event such as the Valencia fire in a building covered with a construction system that includes polyurethane plates.
The fire in Valencia last Thursday has turned on the alarm lights about a building system and the placement of thermal insulation on the façade that can be very dangerous in buildings that may have used this procedure in the city of Barcelona.
The group led by former mayor Xavier Trias demands that “the municipal government publishes in three months a report on the use of polyurethane in buildings in the city of Barcelona, ??especially those built based on technical regulations prior to the current Technical Building Code , and what technical and prevention measures will be taken so that an event like the Valencia fire cannot happen in a building covered with a construction system that includes polyurethane plates.”
On the other hand, the main opposition group has registered another request addressed to the municipal government to explain what preventive actions it will take to avoid situations such as the one that occurred in Badalona with the sudden collapse of a residential building on Canigó street that It caused the death of three people, and the preventive evacuation due to the appearance of cracks in four adjacent buildings.
The Junts group requests that a report be published in three months on how many buildings in the city are built with ceramic elements in their structure and have not passed the Technical Building Inspection, and what prevention measures and for the structural consolidation of these buildings They will be taken so that an event like the Badalona collapse cannot happen.
