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Part in emergency exercises in case of a roof collapse caused by ageing concrete. seven hospitals were built using a low quality, lightweight concrete, and one of them is now limiting operations on heavier patients in case the floor gives way. our correspondent nikki fox has this exclusive report. steel posts holding up the roof on a children s ward, on a maternity unit, where mothers lie with new babies. seven hospitals in england, all constructed with a type of lightweight concrete. but it is failing and all need to be rebuilt. so we are currently on one of our service corridors. what you can see above you is a latticework of structural timbers. should a plank fall, they will cradle them and support them. the west suffolk hospital was built with concrete rack planks. they were never meant to last and are 15 years beyond their expected life span. the trust s risk assessment is clear without the safety measures, the threat of planks failing is immediate. ....
This exclusive report for steel posts holding up the roof on a children s ward, on a maternity unit, where mothers lie with new babies. seven hospitals in england, all constructed with a type of lightweight concrete. but it is failing and all need to be rebuilt. so we are currently on one of our service corridors. what you can see above you as a latticework of structural timbers. should a plank fall, they will cradle them and support them. the west suffolk hospital was built with concrete rack planks. they were never meant to last and are 15 years beyond their expected life span. the trust s risk assessment is clear without the safety measures, the threat of planks failing is immediate. but they will take two years to install, so they have commissioned a corporate manslaughter report in case anything goes wrong. the situation we are facing, it is unprecedented. why would you describe it as being unprecedented? no one is clear the way in which this structure will perform ....
Of our service corridors. what you can see above you is a latticework of structural timbers. should a plank fall, they will cradle them and support them. the west suffolk hospital was built with concrete rack planks. they were never meant to last and are 15 years beyond their expected lifespan. the trust s risk assessment is clear without the safety measures, the threat of planks failing is immediate. but they will take two years to install, so they have commissioned a corporate manslaughter report in case anything goes wrong. the situation we are facing, it is unprecedented. why would you describe it as being unprecedented? no one is clear the way in which this structure will perform as it gets to that kind of age. documents obtained by bbc look east show last year, trusts in the east took part in exercise hodges. it simulated a scenario in which part of the hospital collapsed because of concrete planks failing. at west suffolk, all the external walls are made of rack. the technical ....