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RIBA calls on government to set up industry task force to coordinate RAAC response

By 2023-09-04T12:09:00

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Advice come as government dashes hopes of new funding to fix or replace closed schools

RIBA has called on the government to set up an industry-led taskforce to coordinate safety measures in schools affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).

The institute’s board chair Jack Pringle also urged the Department for Education (DfE) to immediately publish its Condition of Schools Survey to expose the full scale of the problems caused by the deteriorating material which have forced the closure of more than 100 schools just days before the start of the autumn term.

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