Dubain / Old King Coal
Very well posted and quite prophetic as I was talking about this with one of your NZ colleagues ( 777 Pilot) while he was heading to the UK to see spouse and family pre Christmas.
There are a large number of towers throughout the Gulf as Old King Coal highlighted that have "Roman candled". My speciality is façade engineering and this characteristic is well known, and has been designed / mitigated against for a number of years in other areas, but at a cost which resulted in increased build costs and requiring a skilled design / installation team. This resulted in jobs being lost to more value engineering based contractors, (Its not engineering it is cost cutting, there is little if any engineering involved !) who maybe were less concerned of the out come, or more commonly just know they will disappear with luck before this type of issue occurs. As for German engineering in this field, they have had, and continue to have many respected firms in this area of expertise, but even they suffer on occasions when working with unscrupulous companies in your geographical area. Made for an interesting counterpoint to the Fire work display though.
Cheers
Mr Mac