{"id":18670,"date":"2014-01-03T03:21:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20131226\/NEWS\/131229977\/polyurea-solution-potential-for-falling-debris-in-unsafe-buildings"},"modified":"2014-01-01T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:35:35","slug":"polyurea-solution-potential-falling-debris-unsafe-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/polyurea-solution-potential-falling-debris-unsafe-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyurea solution potential for falling debris in unsafe buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The threat of injury posed from falling debris when buildings collapse \u2013 such as occurred at the Apollo Theatre in London \u2013 has already been the focus of polyurea practitioners and the material could provide a solution.<\/p>\n<p>Polyurea coatings are already being used to strengthen structures in war and earthquake zones \u2013 the British Army use the application in Iraq \u2013 is a subject that could gain some attention as accident investigators pick through the debris and evidence at the theater.<\/p>\n<p>Part of a decorative plaster ceiling crumbled and fell onto audience members following a mild storm in the city on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<p>Tod Rittenhouse, managing director at U.S.-based structural engineering consultancy Weidlinger Associates said polyurea \u2013 due to its high elasticity and a resistance to mechanical strain \u2013 is &#8220;very helpful at keeping bricks or pieces of concrete intact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;When you have disaster, an earthquake or terrorist attack, polyurea properly applied to a wall will keep debris confined and stop it flying around in space.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rittenhouse said there may be some application for ceilings and roof structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat of injury posed from falling debris when buildings collapse &ndash; such as occurred at t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[6285],"class_list":["post-18670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-urethanes-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18670"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=18670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}