Landsec has said it will order checks on all of its older buildings to search for crumbling concrete.
Chief executive Mark Allan said the company had exposure to buildings built in the five decades after the Second World War. He said it would “definitely” look at surveying them to check for the presence of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
“It is incumbent on any responsible property owner to do some work to understand where we might have exposure,” he said.
He added that he expected the surveys to be targeted at a small number of buildings, including shopping centres in Landsec’s portfolio that were built in the 1970s.
The move comes after the Institution of Structural Engineers urged owners of older commercial property to “conduct a survey of the building to identify or eliminate the possibility” of RAAC.
