‘A near miss” is how the Standing Committee on Structural Safety (SCOSS) described the partial collapse of a roof at a primary school in Kent in 2018. The collapse happened at a weekend, when the school was unoccupied; otherwise it could have resulted in injuries or even fatalities.
That “near miss” caused SCOSS to issue an alert a few months later. It warned that the collapse was caused by the roof’s construction using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), and said “sight must not be lost of the fact that the 2018 collapse was sudden with very little noticeable warning”.
