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Well, I found it a very interesting post - thank you! Should we be concerned that an establishment whose primary function is to determine safety standards is financed by private money though?
Marc | 08.09.17 - 7:34 a.m. | #
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Fascinating, if I ever have more money than sense, then I might create a garden feature by building a scale model of a dam and tastefully breaching it with explosive charges.
Given recent events, a 120 mph in a wind tunnel isn't enough.
Anechoic Chamber - there was something about this a couple of weeks ago on BBC 4 (?), they do shut people in there (as they did with the presenter), but some can't deal with the absolute silence - there is a suspended mesh that you walk on.
There are other similar rooms, for example when recording The Archers, and they need to simulate 'outside in a field', they have an 'L' shaped room fitted out the same way, the actor just goes round the corner and shouts - sounds as though they are calling from a distance.
Burn Hall - if only the cladding was tested before fitting it to the tower block - but we have been here before, remember polyurethane foam in furniture back in the 80s?
Still anon | 08.09.17 - 7:48 a.m. | #
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>>Should we be concerned that an establishment whose primary function is to determine safety standards is financed by private money though?
It'll just be in line with nearly everything else in this country...
Red Cardinal | 08.09.17 - 8:29 a.m. | #
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I hope the fire prevention measures are up to spec for that timber library..
Adrian | 08.09.17 - 8:34 a.m. | #
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BRE is wholly owned by a charitable trust, BRE Trust.
Bruce | 08.09.17 - 8:59 a.m. | #
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What a fantastic story - would love to go...
deruf | 08.09.17 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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How could you think we wouldn't be interested dg?!
louise | 08.09.17 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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Thank you for my new word of the day: xylarium.
Jonathan Wadman | 08.09.17 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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Another interested one here too! Must call my 86 year old civil engineering dad to see if he knows!
Cornish Cockney | 08.09.17 - 10:15 a.m. | #
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Very interesting, DG. I have been reading about the wartime work of the BRE as part of the research for a book I am writing about the Dams Raid. The BRE work is described in John Sweetman’s book on the raid. In it, Sweetman writes about the absolute secrecy under which the building of the model dam was carried out, and the bitterly cold conditions under which the men worked. I didn’t know, however, that there was so much detail on the BRE website until I clicked on the link in your article. I will now write this up for my own blog — so thanks again.
Charles | Homepage | 08.09.17 - 10:42 a.m. | #
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Thanks for the tip. Have booked.
Andrew | 08.09.17 - 3:45 p.m. | #
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Interestingly enough Barnes Wallis also did preparatory work for the Dams Raid at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. I remember going to an fair in Teddington some time ago when staff from the N P L had set up his experiment for judging the speed needed for the bomb to breach the dam for child to have a go. Fascinating how events like these can change the course of bigger vents.
Tones | 08.09.17 - 3:48 p.m. | #
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Thank you for the tip! Went today with our kids and their friends. Everyone loved it. Could not see it all, but we'll go back next year!
Ami | 09.09.17 - 7:19 p.m. | #
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Indeed. Somehow managed to spend nearly five hours there today, including the brilliant Dambusters talk and lunch at the heaving café. Got to experience the new but much smaller anechoic chamber.
Heard the staff saying they were busier than expected. Wonder why.
Andrew | 09.09.17 - 9:39 p.m. | #
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Well, I for one was interested enough to trek halfway across London with the guide dog, and a thoroughly worthwhile trip it was too. Apparently they were well up on numbers from previous years, and The lecture theatre was filling for the fifth bouncing bomb talk of the day as I left it and headed down to the model dam. Thank you DG for drawing this to our attention.
Robert | Homepage | 10.09.17 - 7:17 a.m. | #
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I used to work at another thing privatised in a similar way at roughly the same time a 19th century manor house. They don't seem to have participated in any such open days. I have a book somewhere about the DSIR (department of scientific and industrial research) as it then was and the Industry Research Associations plus the things it ran directly, essentially because the industries (or whatever) in question were state or municipal owned. One of the more famous was of course the Flour and Milling Research Association in Chorleywood hence the name of the process.
John Styles | 10.09.17 - 10:59 p.m. | #
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Grew up just round the corner from the BRE, and spent a great deal of my childhood viewing it with an air of fascination as I skirted past it on various bike rides. Would make for a good circular walk from Bricket Wood on the Abbey Line, assuming the 319s aren't having one of their regular sulks.
Phil | 12.09.17 - 9:03 p.m. | #
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I am hoping.to go there tomorrow, thanks DG for giving me ideas for the future!
Daniel E. Farnes | 07.09.18 - 2:01 a.m. | #
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