The government is advising more than 100 schools to close high risk buildings before the start of the new term as it updates its guidance on structures built with a "weaker" form of concrete and follows on from concerns about the use of the material in hospitals.
A sudden roof collapse…
The government has expanded an inquiry into the use of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) to include the whole public estate rather than just schools as it was initially planned in March last year.
Confirmed in a Local Government Association (LGA) briefing, the inquiry will now ask each government department look…
NHS trusts have urged the government to act faster to replace roofs presenting a “major and unjustifiable safety risk” across many UK hospitals.
A new report by NHS Providers, an organisation representing NHS trusts, highlights how the dilapidated state of hospitals and facilities are putting patients at risk. It urges the…
City of Edinburgh Council is to investigate 15 buildings it admits could contain a potentially dangerous material involved in several structural collapses.
The Scottish authority has appointed a consultant from its professional services framework to undertake a deep probe into the identified properties. It fears they may have been built with…
EXCLUSIVE NHS trusts need hundreds of millions of pounds to remediate dangerous roofs made from Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC).
A series of freedom of information (FoI) submitted by NCE has revealed that five of the worst affected trusts have applied for £331.9M of additional funding to be spent on fixing…
The Treasury and the Department of Health and Social Care have hired Mott MacDonald to carry out a review into hospitals that are at greatest risk of collapse due to being built from reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).
RAAC is ‘borrowed’ technology from other industrial processes that speeds up the manufacturing…
Calls to government for £1.26bn in funding for a new Frimley Park Hospital have been made by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust to create a new net zero facility as well as remove the risk from reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) used in the existing hospital’s roof, which is considered…
Extraordinary similarities are emerging between today’s reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) crisis and the high alumina cement (HAC) debacle of the 1970s. Then, dozens of structures containing precast HAC concrete components had to be strengthened or rebuilt at vast expense.
Now history is repeating itself, according to safety body CROSS-UK. Building…
The Local Government Association’s building safety spokesperson has warned of the “unthinkable” consequences of a RAAC roof collapse.
It comes after temporary emergency measures were implemented at several NHS hospitals which have reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) planks within their walls and ceilings that have deteriorated or have structural weaknesses. The…
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