--- title: "Built to burn: Thousands of buildings worldwide are wrapped in combustible panels" description: A high school, a football stadium, a high-rise hotel and an airport terminal are among structures world-wide covered in combustible-core panels image: https://www.ccaco.com/hubfs/Blog_Images/Grenfell-tower-fire-in-London-969462.jpg --- [![CCA an Aperture Company](https://www.ccaco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/cca.png?width=230&height=95&name=cca.png "CCA an Aperture Company")](http://ccaco.com) [** ](https://www.ccaco.com/blog/built-to-burn#) CCA Blog ![inner-background.jpg](https://www.ccaco.com/hs-fs/file-2302026155-jpg/2014_Images/banners/inner-background.jpg?width=1300&name=inner-background.jpg "inner-background.jpg") # Built to burn: Thousands of buildings worldwide are wrapped in combustible panels [fa icon="calendar"] Jan 4, 2018 11:00:00 AM / by [Clark Griffith, AIA](https://www.ccaco.com/blog/author/clark-griffith-aia) ![Grenfell-tower-fire-in-London-969462.jpg](https://www.ccaco.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog_Images/Grenfell-tower-fire-in-London-969462.jpg?width=320&name=Grenfell-tower-fire-in-London-969462.jpg) A high school in Alaska, a National Football League stadium, a Baltimore high-rise hotel and a Dallas airport terminal are among thousands of structures world-wide covered in combustible-core panels similar to those that burned in June's deadly London fire. According to a recent article in the *Wall Street* *Journal* and picked up by *Construction News**, *safety improvements to building interiors over the past 40 years have helped cut the number of structure fires and related deaths in the U.S. by roughly half, a remarkable victory over one of civilization's oldest threats. Yet fire-safety experts say the more recent use of combustible-core panels to cover multistory buildings has created a hidden danger to legions of workers, students, hospital patients and hotel guests inside the structures. 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