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  1. Stockholm Tiger

    Stockholm Tiger Well-Known Member

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    A bit odd that it appears now and only in schools then.
     
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  3. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Just natural aging
    I’d wonder what the government are trying to hide while this is in the headlines
     
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  4. balkan tiger

    balkan tiger Well-Known Member

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    Oddly enough the word Rak as this concrete thing is being pronounced means cancer in many languages.
     
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  5. originallambrettaman

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    It's not just schools, there's at least 34 public buildings and 24 hospitals as well (NHS Scotland are checking their buildings, there's a chance that the material was used in up to 250 sites).

    As far as I can see, only one school roof has ever collapsed as a result of this material and that was five years ago, so I'm not sure what's prompted such drastic last minute action.
     
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  6. Cityzen

    Cityzen Well-Known Member

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    Should have looked up the concrete the Romans used.
     
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  7. DMD

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    Or the pyramid builders. <cheers>
     
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  9. Cityzen

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    They didn’t use concrete. They did use mortar.Would be useful to have then build large structures though. The Romans invented a concrete that set underwater. Details were lost and they didn’t rediscover how to do it until last century. Watched them demonstrating it in a documentary a while ago.
    The Romans constructed Hadrian’s wall at the rate of a mile a month. The should be in charge of road repairs.
     
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    Cityzen, Sep 1, 2023
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  10. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Ye but what have they ever done for us??
     
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  11. Cityzen

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    Still awaiting compensation from the colonising gits.
     
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    Cityzen, Sep 1, 2023
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    The bastard Romans kept some of my ancestors as slaves! Can I claim from the Italian Government, or the Vatican?
     
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    Maybe so that another roof doesn't collapse on kids? Not ITK, just a wild guess
     
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    Clearly, but you've rather missed my point, why wait five years to do anything about it?
     
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    Ineptly handled once again by the powers that be.

    Nowt’s crashing on kid’s heads today, tomorrow or next week. A maintenance and/or replace program initiated five years ago would have sorted this whole problem by now. Could have run it through lockdown when schools were closed anyway.

    Now we’ve got unnecessary and irrational panic and mass inconvenience for children, parents, school managers and teachers which should all have been avoided.

    Incompetence at the top level doesn’t even come close to covering it.
     
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    Somewhere in the news it was mentioned that a school roof collapsed last week...
     
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    Sadly, yes, this one https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...EQFnoECBoQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3oMvV1CfJD--l4A0YqRptL
    Don't know if it's the case here but I recall stories of corruption in awarding contracts and subsequently using inferior materials leading to building failure - former Eastern Bloc countries eg Romania come to mind.
     
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  20. Ernie Shackleton

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    That’s awful but there’s no suggestion that this was caused by failure of the type of construction currently under discussion in this country.
     
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    Ernie Shackleton, Sep 1, 2023
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