Major works on rebuilding a RAAC-hit Durham school are well underway - with hopes to be teaching at the site come next spring ...

Plans to spend £4.5m repairing a closed theatre in Surrey have been approved by councillors. Harlequin Theatre in Redhill ...

The works on the upper floor of the building will make sure occupants using the rooms below it are safe from any collapse of ...

Safety measures to protect people from crumbling concrete at a town hall could cost £900,000, a report has revealed. Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) was found on the second floor of the ...

Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) is a lightweight form of concrete that was used in schools, colleges and other building construction from the 1950s until the mid-1990s, according to ...

It turned out to be aerated autoclaved concrete, and it was invented in 1924 by Swedish architect Dr. Johan Axel Eriksson. Today there are hundreds of factories worldwide producing the material.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) market 2017-2021 report. This market research report also ...

DURING A EUROPEAN building boom that began in the 1960s, a novel form of construction material began to be used. Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, known as RAAC, is pre-cast in a factory ...

Built before 1980, the schools, and 50 others already undergoing mitigation, contain structural panels made of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, called RAAC, now considered unsafe.

More than 500 properties - most of them council-owned - were found to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) in 2023. Aberdeen City Council previously agreed to demolish the homes.

The masonry material, called autoclaved aerated concrete or AAC, can withstand a 2,000-degree fire for four hours, according ...