School closures: Classrooms ‘could be shut until 2025’

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Government to close classrooms and other buildings that contain a form of concrete that is prone to collapse. The problem has been known about for years, but 3 days before schools are to re-open, government closes schools and looks at alternative sites or online learning.

www.independent.co.uk

Schools ‘could be shut until 2025’ as government refuses to publish full list

More than 100 schools to partially or fully close buildings as new term starts next week
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It’s good that they discovered it’s an issue. Not good that there is an issue obviously. They really pick their timing to make these warning known though!

Luckily my school is a new build so not affected but I feel so sorry for all those that are
 
Lily123 said:
Luckily my school is a new build so not affected but I feel so sorry for all those that are
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There’s another school with a separate issue that’s only 2-3 years old that has also been shut a day or two before the start of the new school year 😱

This RAAC thing seems to have been building since 2018 (in the NHS as well as schools) and a ‘critical’ warning in 2022 :(
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
There’s another school with a separate issue that’s only 2-3 years old that has also been shut a day or two before the start of the new school year 😱

This RAAC thing seems to have been building since 2018 (in the NHS as well as schools) and a ‘critical’ warning in 2022 :(
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Oh my god 😱 . I thought they stopped using RAAC in the 90s?

I saw about the hospitals, 7 of them, hopefully they don’t struggle too much. They’ve already started repairs on 2, or that’s what the news implied
 
Government info here on RAAC. Basically they've known for years about this. Instead of carrying out preventative maintenance, it's now going to be reactive, emergency maintenance with all the inconveniences it brings.

www.local.gov.uk

Information on Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC)

The LGA is advising its members to check as a matter of urgency whether any buildings in their estates have roofs, floors, cladding or walls made of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC).
www.local.gov.uk www.local.gov.uk
 
Lily123 said:
Oh my god 😱 . I thought they stopped using RAAC in the 90s?
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Yes the Somerset school is a modular build failure not RAAC, but it has all unfolded at the same time :(
 
“In one hospital staff can carry out roof maintenance only if they and their tools are a certain weight,” Dame Meg Hillier, chairwoman of parliament’s public accounts committee, told The Times.

“Heavy patients must be treated on the ground floor because the combined weight with equipment is too heavy to be safe.”
 
Officials have raised the risk level of school buildings collapsing to “very likely”, after an increase in serious structural issues being reported – especially in blocks built in the years 1945 to 1970.​

(This story is from last year.)

www.theguardian.com

Risk level of school buildings collapsing in England raised to ‘very likely’

Annual report lays bare state of dilapidated education estate built during postwar shortages
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The amount of students and staff affected by this is awful. The fact that they first noticed it could be an issue in 94 and wait until disaster does happen when that beam collapsed. Good job in wasn’t in term time
 
Lily123 said:
The amount of students and staff affected by this is awful. The fact that they first noticed it could be an issue in 94 and wait until disaster does happen when that beam collapsed. Good job in wasn’t in term time
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We're still dealing with all the dangerous high rise apartment blocks all over the country, people effectively trapped in dangerous buildings (combustible claddings) which until fixed can't be sold, add to that increased mortgage costs, awful. The inside of these apartments are just as dangerous, all sorts of issues.

Now we are moving on to schools, hospitals, prisons etc. What's next? Low rise apartment blocks?
 
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