Heat loss assessment, David vs Goliath

[HughF]

Google served up an interesting article for me just now:

 

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/legal-threat-forces-startup-out-of-heat-loss-measurement-market-26-02-2024/

 

F******g lawyers…..

[markc]

10 minutes ago, HughF said:

Google served up an interesting article for me just now:

 

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/legal-threat-forces-startup-out-of-heat-loss-measurement-market-26-02-2024/

 

F******g lawyers…..

Interesting read…

[SteamyTea]

So it is a patent/copyright/IP dispute, nothing to do with actual building material quality.

 

[saveasteading]

Other news of greenwash, misbehaviour.

BBC News - Drax: UK power station still burning rare forest wood
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160

[HughF]

3 hours ago, SteamyTea said:

So it is a patent/copyright/IP dispute, nothing to do with actual building material quality.

 

Yep…. But it’s still a load of s**t that a company the size of saint gobain can go after the little guy like this. I’d just open source/leak all the designs and IP then tell them where to go.

[saveasteading]

19 minutes ago, HughF said:

company the size of saint gobain can go after the little guy like this. 

Seems they collaborated, pinched ideas, then went after them. Add that to  celotex fire test cheating....not a nice company.

What can we do? 

This spreading of the word.

Don't say celotex when meaning pir, and only buy any other brand.

They own British Gypsum, Isover, Ecophon, Pasquill, and lots more.

 

Perhaps materials enquiries could state to the BM..."do not quote for any St Gobain products".

 

This is from the Grenfell inquiry

almost three years before the 2017 disaster, colleagues alerted her that a safety test had been rigged with fire-retardant panels to boost the insulation’s fire performance, but the modifications were left out of marketing literature used by architects and specifiers.

 

 

[joe90]

I still find it incredible that manufacturers can test their own product without 3rd party authentication to prove compliance.