#RAAC

[a-gay-little-cat]

Finally made a proper reference for my most special guy!!

[scavengedluxury]

This is the latest scandal in the alienating hellscape that is the UK. Hundreds of schools are closed because they were built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) which may now be unsafe. An entirely foreseeable conclusion of 40 years of the British establishment worshipping at the altar of Mises and Hayek, this secular economic religion that insists the private sector is always the best at everything despite all the evidence to the contrary. Governments deregulate and award their donors PFI contracts which they exploit to extract maximum profit from the public, reinvestment in critical infrastructure gets put on hold for a couple of years with few ill effects, neoliberals say all is well and anyone warning of the long term consequences is an extremist and now here we are. Austerity is a very expensive business!

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[ceevee5]

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[ianchisnall]

MPs to probe ministers over poor concrete in schools

On Thursday the CYP Now website published this article which was written by Emily Harle and the initial comment is MPs are set to question ministers over the disruption caused by dangerous concrete in school buildings, following the Department for Education’s publication of a list of all affected institutions. They also provide a comment under the photograph of the MP for Worcester who is the…

[fullyfundedschorlarships]

List of UK schools with RAAC

We will look at the list of UK schools with RAAC. We will also look into details about RAAC and what it is and why many UK schools have to close. The issue of RAAC has also forced many schools to switched to online mode. What is RAAC? Its full form according to a BBC publication1 is “reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete”. It is a concrete crisis where school buildings are said to have used…

[a-gay-little-cat]

FINAL SHAPE GOT ME FEELING SOME SORT OF WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[angelholme]

1,100 schools.

2,000,000+ kids.

But Sunak says it's not a big problem.

Compare and contrast to the MASSIVE reaction to the ULEZ expansion that will -- at most -- affect maybe 600,000 to 700,000 vehicles in outer London.

A situation that -- if Sunak and his government are to be believed -- is the end of civilisation as we know it.

Kind of makes you wonder where their priorities lie.

[emilpavsnc]

Che cos'è il calcestruzzo RAAC e perché non è sicuro?

Il calcestruzzo è l’elemento con cui vengono costruiti quasi tutti gli edifici pubblici nel mondo, ma molti architetti per risparmiare, hanno utilizzato fin dagli anni 80 un calcestruzzo di bassa lega. #bassa #calcestruzzo #manutenzione #RAAC

  A pochi giorni dall’inizio del nuovo anno scolastico, miriadi di scuole sono state invitate a chiudere gli edifici costruiti con un certo tipo di cemento se non adottano misure di sicurezza. Ecco cosa sappiamo finora del materiale al centro di tutto ciò. Cos’è il RAAC? Il calcestruzzo aerato autoclavato rinforzato (RAAC) è un materiale leggero che è stato utilizzato soprattutto per le coperture…

[ceevee5]

What is the difference between RAAC and RAAB?

One is dense, full of hot air, dangerous, and past its expected useful life. The other is concrete.

[thevirtualvicar]

104 schools and colleges are told to partially or fully close due to concrete fears. It comes as children prepare to return to their classes after the summer holidays

[eaglesnick]

“Safety isn’t expensive, its priceless" - Jerry Smith

For five years the government has known that school roofs constructed with lightweight concrete known as RAAC were liable to collapse without warning. In 2018 a school roof in Gravesend Kent caved in on a Saturday, so  luckily no one was injured.

This structural failure led to an enquiry by the Standing Committee on Structural Safety (Scoss). This committee reported in 2019 that a similar collapse had occurred in a retail unit using the same type of concrete planking used in the construction of many schools. As a result, says New Civil Engineer:

“As the lifespan of the planks is estimated to be around 30 years, Scoss is now recommending that all planks installed before 1980 are replaced.” (14/05/19)

This clearly hasn’t happened. For reasons of cost, the safety of our children in schools built using RAAC has been deliberately ignored. It was estimated that a yearly fund of £7billion was needed to replace these buildings but the Treasury only allocated £3billion.

Money before lives is nothing new as far as Tory policy is concerned. But why the sudden change in heart? Why decide to close schools only a few days before the start of the new school year when the Tories have deliberately ignored the seriousness of the problem for years?

On the BBC Today programme this morning (01/09/230 , amid all the platitudes rolled out by the Schools Minister Nick Gibb, the true reason slipped out. During the summer break, in a school previously labelled as "safe" a roof beam collapsed.

In other words, even though for the past four years the government has known that roofs with RAAC were liable to collapse without warning it wasn’t until another school roof collapsed during this summer that they took the safety of children’s lives seriously.

Those school rooms with roofs that are deemed “unsafe" will either be abandoned, the children being taught in temporary classrooms,  or have  their roofs propped up in some way, making them little better than a building site.

Our children deserve so much better and the Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan,  should resign immediately.

[otterlycurly]

Pov: you’re a school kid in the UK