All RAAC articles
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News
Aberdeen City Council decides demolition is the safest option for 500 RAAC homes
Homes containing the lightweight concrete will be demolished and rebuilt at a cost of £130m
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Features
How do you fix a grade I listed Oxford college built from RAAC?
All the roofs at St Catherine’s College were recently condemned thanks to the presence of RAAC. Thomas Lane reports on how the team came up with a solution that didn’t affect the historical significance of the Arne Jacobsen-designed campus
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Features
School buildings crisis: What can the next government do to save our schools and colleges?
Public capital spending on education was less last year than at any time since Labour’s Building Schools for the Future programme got up to speed 17 years ago. As part of Building’s election focus, Joey Gardiner asks what can be done to stop our schools falling further into disrepair
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News
Architect wanted to design £740m replacement for problem concrete hospital
Leighton Hospital in Cheshire found to contain reinforced auoclaved aerated concrete in 80% of its buildings
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Temporary classrooms supplied after RAAC crisis cost DfE £35m
Wernick, Portakabin and Algeco named as suppliers picked in September
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Comment
Review your contracts for potential RAAC liabilities
Given what happened with cladding, it would be wise to review your RAAC exposure now
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Comment
Lessons learnt from the RAAC crisis can help us build better schools in future
An in-depth study of postwar school designs has provided some valuable insights for new developments, writes Danny Harris of Stride Treglown
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News
Collapse that sparked RAAC U-turn caused by bearing failure, says DfE official
Number of schools to identify problem concrete rises to 174
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DfE’s ‘primarily visual’ RAAC surveys may have missed hidden flaws
Department officials resist MP’s attempts to get numbers of unsurveyed schools in testy committee hearing
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NHS to complete new RAAC surveys in ‘matter of weeks’, committee hears
But top boss admits it is having to compete with schools for specialist inspectors
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Education sees spending boost in wake of RAAC crisis, as infrastructure falls
Spending on sector hit £700m in August, says Barbour ABI
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News
Research reveals properly installed and maintained RAAC can perform better than originally intended
Problems centre on reinforcement positioning at the ends of RAAC planks
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Features
Does the latest RAAC research mean remediation could be easier and cheaper than all the panic suggests?
A Loughborough University expert has identified the primary cause of failure – and suggests RAAC has the potential to be safe if properly managed
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News
Proportion of RAAC likely to be higher among schools yet to return DfE questionnaires
One in 10 schools have yet to respond to the department’s surveys - meanwhile DfE publishes list of schools with at risk concrete
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News
RAAC schools had been due for renewal under scrapped Labour plan
Plans to renew 13 schools hit by RAAC crisis were shelved in 2010
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News
RAAC ‘not widespread in social housing’ says regulator
The social housing in England regulator denies that aerated concrete is likely to be prevalent in social housing
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News
CLC to set up expert panel to advise on RAAC crisis
Group will be drawn from industry experts and professional bodies across the construction sector
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Government expands RAAC surveys of court buildings after Harrow closure
Harrow Crown Court closed for repairs last month despite assurance that sites had been deemed safe
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Comment
We urgently need to invest in our state school buildings. It’s already too late…
The disparity in terms of investment in England’s independent and state school buildings is huge, getting bigger and unacceptable, writes Jerry Tate
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News
CLC to hold crisis talks on RAAC schools today
Trade bodies to discuss how industry can respond to need for repairs in schools and other public buildings