.DURING THE COURSE OF A EUROPEAN building boom that began in the 1960s, a novel type of building and construction material began to become made use of. Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, called RAAC, is actually pre-cast in a factory, typically right into planks, just before being actually taken to a construction site where it may be swiftly assembled right into part of a building. Although RAAC is actually still used in lots of component of the planet, Britain is having certain problems using it.
In some structures the product is actually collapsing in 2018 it created a school roof covering to crash. An amount of institutions have actually been shut and also other structures, consisting of health centers, are affected. This is actually leading to worry amongst the general public as well as a political migraine for the federal government.
What is actually RAAC, and also why performs it become harmful?