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Episode 2: The Fire That Almost Upstaged the Fireworks
On New Year’s Eve 2015, a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai caught fire just hours before the world-famous Burj Khalifa fireworks. As flames raced up nearly 40 floors, spectators struggled to tell the difference between a spectacular light show and a real disaster.
In Episode 2 of Engineering Gone Wrong, Aditya investigates the Address Downtown fire and the deceptively simple material choice behind it: aluminium composite panels with a highly flammable plastic core. From cost-cutting and construction decisions to repeated skyscraper fires and changes in fire safety regulations, this episode…
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