Oh, RAAC collapses are a recognised problem already. It looks as if it's not so much the whole thing but chunks of it - literally so, a lot of RAAC elements are precast in a factory. A little po… (View Post)

Excellent, thanks, I hoped you would come up with the goods. Edit: RAAC does have reinforcement in it (*R*AAC) but no idea if it is designed to be continuous between sections. I see from this it does… (View Post)

PS Looks as if the reinforcing is a sort of wire mesh. That photo of the cracking in a ceiling panel has a meshlike appearance, suggesting failure along the "emptier" lines of the pattern. (View Post)

"National fingerprint database": isn't that like banning zombie knives, and claiming hospitals that already exist are "new"? Same with DNA. Tories do have a much greater fait… (View Post)

Wick. No queues to get on or off the plane, and great scenery. (View Post)