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Show HN: RAAC Map – A map of UK buildings built with dangerous concrete (google.com)
1 point by matteason on Sept 8, 2023 | hide | past | favorite
We're in the middle of a bit of a crisis in the UK, because it turns out a lot of our public buildings are built with a kind of bubbly concrete called reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, or RAAC, that's prone to collapsing without warning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_autoclaved_aerated_...

The Department for Education released a list of affected schools earlier this week, so I used Ofsted data (https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/) to find their locations and mapped it on on Google My Maps. I've since added other buildings like theatres, universities and hospitals which are also affected.

My Maps is a great tool for this kind of thing, and makes it really easy to import location data from a spreadsheet as well as search for places manually.



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