Failure of RAAC planks in schools

Failure of RAAC planks in schools - CROSS-UK April 2020

Having read the Standing Committee on Structural Safety (SCOSS) May 2019 Alert on Failure of RAAC Planks, a structural engineer contacted CROSS to share their experience of working on projects with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) planks. In 2017, they were asked to investigate an RAAC roof which had collapsed in a school. Luckily, there was no one in the classroom at the time of the collapse. This report summarises the learning outcomes.


BUILDING DEFECTS
CONCRETE
EDUCATION BUILDINGS
REINFORCED AUTOCLAVED AERATED CONCRETE
SCHOOLS


United Kingdom