The ‘Current’ Issue With Concrete - UK Column News

The ‘Current’ Issue With Concrete
Sources: www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-4th-september-2023
- UK Column Article: Debi Evans Blog: 20 September 2022
“Operation Rapture: Warnings of significant hospital structural failure in the East of England has prompted an emergency scheme known as Operation Rapture, which would come into effect should hospitals collapse. Concerns about reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) planks were first raised in 2018.”
- BBC: Dozens were at risk of collapse due to risky concrete
- Cross Safety: Failure Of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Planks (PDF)
- The Times: School concrete closures: Tories ‘ignored RAAC risk’
- Building Design: RIBA calls on government to set up industry task force to coordinate RAAC response
- The Independent: The one beam that has forced over 100 schools to close
- The Times: Concrete 'booby trap' is sprung after 28 years of warnings