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…
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…
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