A temporary screen will be put up outside the Walkie Talkie building to help prevent the sun's rays from reflecting from the skyscraper and that which causes damage, according to BBC.
The 37-storey building located in the City of London is allegedly blamed for starting fires, causing damage to nearby businesses. Not only has it melted parts of a Jaguar, it has also blistered paintwork and caused tiles to fall.
Developers Land Securities and Canary Wharf said that the scaffold screen would be erected at street level. "This solution should minimize the impact on the local area over the next two to three weeks, after which time the phenomenon is expected to have disappeared," said the company's spokesperson.
The building which is estimated at 200 million pounds and located on 20 Fenchurch Street has been nicknamed the "Walkie-Talkie" because of its unique shape, which is currently under construction. Experts have said that they believe the fires start because the reflections of sunlight bounce off the building's curved windows and all coverage at the same time, concentrating the light.
"The position of the sun at a certain time of the day caused a searing bolt of sunlight to start a small fire and burn a hole in his company doormat," said Ali Akay of nearby Re Style Barbers. "We were working and just saw the smoke coming out of the carpet. We tried to cut the fire down, there were customers in at the time and they were obviously not happy," he said.
"Customers are not going to come in if there is a fire in the front of the door," he said further. It is getting really serious. This is a health and safety issue. They should have looked into this before they built it."
