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Facebook site flooded by burst pipe

Grant Prior 4 years ago

A leaking pipe flooded the new Facebook headquarters site in London this week.

Videos posted on social media show torrents of water flowing through the site in King’s Cross.

ISG is undertaking fit-out work on the 415,000 sq ft office complex where main construction was carried-out by BAM.

One video shows a site worker stripped down to his shorts in a mobile elevated work platform battling to stop the flow of water.

Another shows water cascading down through the lower floors of the 12-storey building.

ISG declined to comment.

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