How many UK buildings have confirmed RAAC?

The Department for Education has confirmed RAAC in 237 schools and colleges in England, the NHS has identified around 60 hospital sites with confirmed RAAC including seven being rebuilt, and a number of universities and public buildings are also affected. The register on this page brings the publicly identified buildings together by area.

Is there one official list of all RAAC buildings?

No. There is no single comprehensive UK list. The Department for Education publishes confirmed education settings, the NHS publishes confirmed hospital sites, and other buildings appear through public records. This page consolidates those publicly identified buildings by area and adds what can be done about them.

My building is on a RAAC list. Does it have to be replaced?

Usually not. Where a structural assessment supports it, RAAC can be strengthened in place with bespoke CFRP, keeping the building open and avoiding the cost and disruption of replacement. We assess each case individually.

Can you strengthen RAAC rather than remove it?

Yes. That is our specialism. We strengthen RAAC in place following the RAACSafe Protocol, designed and signed off by a chartered structural engineer, so the structure gains decades of safe service life without being stripped out.

RAAC Confirmed Buildings: The UK List by Area

This is a working list of UK buildings with confirmed reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC), organised by area, with the one thing the official lists leave out: what can actually be done about it. In most cases RAAC can be strengthened in place rather than ripped out and replaced.

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The scale of the RAAC problem

The Department for Education has confirmed RAAC in 237 schools and colleges in England, with Essex alone accounting for 63. The NHS has identified around 60 hospital sites with confirmed RAAC, seven of them built so substantially from it that they are being fully rebuilt. Universities, courts, theatres, museums and civic buildings of the same 1950s to 1990s era are affected too. The register below brings the publicly identified buildings together by area.

These buildings were publicly identified by the Department for Education, the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and public records. We list them to show the scale of the RAAC challenge and where strengthening can help, not to imply Structured Carbon has worked on every one.

Strengthen, do not replace

For most owners the default advice has been to prop, take the area out of use, and plan replacement. Replacement is the slowest, most disruptive and most expensive option there is. Structured Carbon offers the alternative the official guidance does not push: bespoke CFRP strengthening that keeps the building safely in use, designed and signed off by named RAAC specialists. Across the RAAC tenders we cost, a bespoke CFRP scheme engineered for that exact roof frequently comes in at well below 15 per cent of the cost of full replacement. On one tender, a roof costed at around £40 million to replace was priced for strengthening at under £4 million, with no decant and a programme measured in months rather than years. See remediation vs replacement and our tender track record.

Confirmed RAAC buildings by area

Select an area for the buildings on record there and how they can be strengthened.

Aberdeenshire

1 confirmed building, including University of Aberdeen buildings.

Berkshire

2 confirmed buildings, including Pippins School, St Francis Catholic Primary School, South Ascot.

Bridgend

1 confirmed building, including Bridgend Indoor Market.

Bristol

1 confirmed building, including Bristol Eye Hospital.

Buckinghamshire

4 confirmed buildings, including Denbigh School, St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, St Michael’s Catholic School.

Cambridgeshire

2 confirmed buildings, including Hinchingbrooke Hospital, North Cambridgeshire Hospital - Wisbech.

Cheshire

4 confirmed buildings, including Sandbach School, Countess of Chester Hospital, Leighton Hospital.

County Durham

6 confirmed buildings, including Ferryhill School, St Bede’s Catholic School and Byron Sixth Form College, St Benet’s Catholic Primary School, Ouston.

Cumbria

1 confirmed building, including Cockermouth School.

Derbyshire

1 confirmed building, including St Elizabeth’s Catholic Voluntary Academy.

Devon

3 confirmed buildings, including Petroc, North Devon District Hospital, Derriford Hospital.

Dorset

1 confirmed building, including Dolphin Shopping Centre.

Dundee

1 confirmed building, including University of Dundee buildings.

East Lothian

1 confirmed building, including Brunton Theatre.

East Riding of Yorkshire

1 confirmed building, including Castle Hill Hospital.

East Sussex

1 confirmed building, including Langney Primary Academy.

Edinburgh

1 confirmed building, including Edinburgh Napier University buildings.

Essex

46 confirmed buildings, including Anglo European School, Arthur Bugler Primary School, Barnes Farm Junior School.

Glasgow

1 confirmed building, including University of Strathclyde buildings.

Greater Manchester

14 confirmed buildings, including Canon Slade School, Royal College Manchester (Seashell Trust), Sale Grammar School.

Hampshire

3 confirmed buildings, including Hounsdown School, Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester, Southampton General Hospital.

Hertfordshire

1 confirmed building, including Markyate Village School and Nursery.

Isle of Wight

1 confirmed building, including St. Marys Community Hospital.

Kent

10 confirmed buildings, including Birchington Church of England Primary School, Godinton Primary School, Holcombe Grammar School.

Lanarkshire

1 confirmed building, including Motherwell Concert Hall and Theatre.

Lancashire

4 confirmed buildings, including Our Lady’s Catholic High School, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

Leicestershire

2 confirmed buildings, including Mayflower Primary School, Parks Primary School.

Lincolnshire

2 confirmed buildings, including Stamford and Rutland Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital.

London

22 confirmed buildings, including Hornsey School for Girls, Myatt Garden Primary School, Park View School.

Luton

1 confirmed building, including Avenue Centre for Education.

Merseyside

2 confirmed buildings, including Clatterbridge Hospital, University Hospital Aintree.

Norfolk

4 confirmed buildings, including Thomas Bullock Church of England Primary and Nursery Academy, James Paget Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

North Yorkshire

5 confirmed buildings, including Scalby School, Scarborough General Hospital, Harrogate Hospital.

Northamptonshire

3 confirmed buildings, including Northampton International Academy, Kettering General Hospital, Royal and Derngate.

Nottinghamshire

2 confirmed buildings, including Holy Trinity Catholic Voluntary Academy, Bassetlaw District General Hospital.

Oxfordshire

2 confirmed buildings, including Wallingford School, Churchill Hospital.

Shropshire

2 confirmed buildings, including Donnington Wood Infant School and Nursery Centre, The Princess Royal Hospital.

Somerset

1 confirmed building, including Royal United Hospital, Bath.

South Yorkshire

3 confirmed buildings, including Abbey Lane Primary School, Northern General Hospital, Barnsley Hospital.

Staffordshire

2 confirmed buildings, including Sir Thomas Boughey Academy, Haywood Hospital.

Suffolk

5 confirmed buildings, including Claydon High School, East Bergholt High School, Hadleigh High School.

Surrey

4 confirmed buildings, including Shawfield Primary School, St Paul’s Catholic Primary School, Thames Ditton, Guildford Hospital.

Tyne and Wear

6 confirmed buildings, including St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, Harlow Green, St Columba’s Catholic Primary School, Wallsend, St James’ Catholic Primary School, Hebburn.

Warwickshire

1 confirmed building, including Outwoods Primary School.

West Midlands

8 confirmed buildings, including Prince Albert Junior and Infant School, Redhill School, St Mary and St John Junior and Infant School.

West Sussex

4 confirmed buildings, including St Richard's Hospital, Worthing Hospital, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.

West Yorkshire

4 confirmed buildings, including Batley Girls High School, The Holy Family Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy, Woodkirk Academy.

Worcestershire

1 confirmed building, including Kidderminster Hospital.

The RAACSafe™ Protocol

Wherever a structural assessment supports it, we strengthen RAAC in place rather than strip it out, following our five-stage RAACSafe™ Protocol: Assess, Design, Manufacture, Install and Monitor. Neil Smuts surveys and assesses the RAAC, John Staves designs a bespoke CFRP strengthening scheme to the exact capacity required, the CFRP is manufactured in the UK to that design and installed in place, and the strengthened structure is monitored. Across the RAAC tenders we cost, a bespoke CFRP scheme engineered for that exact roof frequently comes in at well below 15 per cent of the cost of full replacement. On one tender, a roof costed at around £40 million to replace was priced for strengthening at under £4 million, with no decant and a programme measured in months rather than years.

Engineered by named RAAC specialists

Every scheme is designed and signed off by John Staves (CEng FIStructE), one of the UK’s most highly regarded RAAC structural engineers, working from the survey, scanning and monitoring of Neil Smuts (MCIOB, MInstNDT), President of the UK Concrete Scanning Standard. Meet the team.

Frequently asked questions

How many UK buildings have confirmed RAAC?: The Department for Education has confirmed RAAC in 237 schools and colleges in England, the NHS has identified around 60 hospital sites with confirmed RAAC including seven being rebuilt, and a number of universities and public buildings are also affected. The register on this page brings the publicly identified buildings together by area.
Is there one official list of all RAAC buildings?: No. There is no single comprehensive UK list. The Department for Education publishes confirmed education settings, the NHS publishes confirmed hospital sites, and other buildings appear through public records. This page consolidates those publicly identified buildings by area and adds what can be done about them.
My building is on a RAAC list. Does it have to be replaced?: Usually not. Where a structural assessment supports it, RAAC can be strengthened in place with bespoke CFRP, keeping the building open and avoiding the cost and disruption of replacement. We assess each case individually.
Can you strengthen RAAC rather than remove it?: Yes. That is our specialism. We strengthen RAAC in place following the RAACSafe Protocol, designed and signed off by a chartered structural engineer, so the structure gains decades of safe service life without being stripped out.

RAAC in your building or estate?

Tell us about the building and any survey already done, and our named RAAC specialists will advise whether strengthening can keep it open and avoid replacement.