Hundreds of schools, hospitals, and other public buildings made from RAAC, a cheap, lightweight concrete, have to close—the victims of quick fixes and decades of cost-cutting.

The UK’s first electric concrete mixer has successfully completed a three-month trial of commercial deliveries – a big symbolic step for the UK construction industry. The electric ready-mix ...

Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete - otherwise known as RAAC - is a lightweight building material which was used from the 1950s up to the mid-1990s in the UK and across the globe.

Tens of thousands of government and privately owned buildings should be safety checked because of crumbling RAAC concrete, experts say. The team that alerted the government to the problems posed ...