School buildings in England to shut over concrete safety fears - BBC News I wonder if any Cadet buildings been built using this material?
Used quite widely in the public sector between 1950-90s supposedly
It seems highly unlikely that a building material in use for five decades would be confined entirely to school buildings.
We’ve already had a couple of courts close because of it. I can see this being the next “cladding” issue that’s going to trap people in worthless flats.
Hospitals are also affected.
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To be honest, this isn’t really new news. HMG have been talking about this since 2018 and schools have known about this for 9+ months. They’ve all had surveyors in over the last academic year to do the final confirmation tests and work out mitigations.
The fact that only 156 schools are still impacted could possibly be chalked up as a success - lots of the schools had already completely removed RAAC. In some case, it’s because it had already failed and collapsed, already identified before 2018 and mitigations had been completed, or because some schools built in the 1950’s have already been knocked down and rebuilt… or moved into temporary classrooms in the 1990s and are still there!!!
HOWEVER, RAAC use, as already mentioned, isn’t limited to schools. Hospitals, shopping centres, some prefabs and smaller storage buildings all used RAAC as it’s cheap and chips!! No doubt the MOD has some loitering around it’s infrastructure too…
But given we’ve been using “hugely flammable” “risk to life” 12x12’s since 1990’s when they were first identified as a problem, I dread to think how long it’ll be before anybody thinks to check whether our buildings are out to kill us too.
It’s alright the asbestos will keep MOD building standing