Officials say AAC has ‘a lower-risk profile’ in Australia amid UK Raac crisis where dozens of schools were closed due to collapse threat
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Australian governments are urgently checking public buildings to see if they contain aerated concrete that could be dangerous after dozens of UK schools had to close classrooms built with crumble-risk concrete that can suddenly collapse.
The buildings of concern in the UK were built of lightweight concrete panels called reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) – more commonly known in Australia as autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC).
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