NDTScan carries out RAAC surveys in Carlton in Lindrick for schools, hospitals, councils, housing providers, universities and commercial owners. Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete was used in roofs, floors and walls from the late 1950s to the mid 1990s, and a great deal of it is still in service across Nottinghamshire. NDTScan is the UK's specialist in identifying it, assessing it and telling an owner plainly what to do next.
The Department for Education's list of education settings with confirmed RAAC, published in February 2024, includes one setting in Nottinghamshire, among them Holy Trinity Catholic Voluntary Academy. The Department of Health and Social Care's list of hospital sites with confirmed RAAC includes Bassetlaw District General Hospital in Nottinghamshire. NDTScan cites the published lists as evidence that RAAC is in the Nottinghamshire building stock, and for no other reason. Education and health estates were counted because government asked for them to be counted. The equivalent stock in Carlton in Lindrick's council, housing, leisure, retail and commercial buildings has not been, and that is where most uninspected RAAC now sits.
The method NDTScan uses in Carlton in Lindrick is the one it uses everywhere: identify first, then assess. Ground penetrating radar reads the plank's internal structure without cutting into it, distinguishing RAAC from the dense precast, hollowcore and timber it is often mistaken for. Every confirmed plank is then inspected for the defects that matter, cracking, deflection, short bearing, water damage, corrosion and earlier repairs, and classified in line with IStructE guidance. The Carlton in Lindrick owner receives a plank-level record, not a general opinion.
NDTScan's advice to Carlton in Lindrick owners is consistent: survey before you decide. A RAAC roof that has been identified and assessed plank by plank can be managed, propped, strengthened or replaced on evidence. One that has only been glanced at will be closed, propped or replaced on fear, and that is where budgets go. The survey is the smallest cost in the chain.
Scan before you repair. That is the standing advice for every Carlton in Lindrick client, and the reason NDTScan reports what the concrete contains before anyone specifies what to do about it.
Services Available in Carlton in Lindrick
- RAAC Identification Survey GPR based, plank by plank identification of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete in roofs, floors and walls across Carlton in Lindrick. Confirms what the element is made of without opening it up, and records plank widths, reinforcement and bearing details as evidence.
- RAAC Condition Assessment Plank level inspection of confirmed RAAC for cracking, deflection, bearing length, water ingress, corrosion and previous repairs, classified in line with IStructE guidance. Reported so a Nottinghamshire engineer or estates team can act on it directly.
- RAAC Management and Reinspection Monitoring regimes, reinspection intervals and management plans for RAAC that is being kept in service, plus expert input where a Carlton in Lindrick owner needs an independent second opinion on a survey or a remediation proposal.
RAAC in and around Carlton in Lindrick
Instructions in and around Carlton in Lindrick follow the RAAC lifecycle. Identification surveys where the construction of a flat or shallow roof is uncertain. Condition assessment of planks already known to be RAAC. Risk classification to IStructE guidance to support closure, propping or continued use decisions. Management plans and reinspection for planks kept in service. Independent review where a Nottinghamshire owner has been given a survey or a remediation quote and wants a second opinion before spending. NDTScan works for the Department for Education, the Department of Health and Social Care and the Office of Government Property funded bodies as well as private owners, and attends Carlton in Lindrick from its Oxford base.
NDTScan also provides RAAC surveys in Nottingham, Mansfield, Carlton, Beeston, Worksop and Arnold and the rest of Nottinghamshire. The rest of the region is covered from the East Midlands RAAC surveys page, and the service itself is described on the RAAC surveys page.
About NDTScan
NDTScan is a specialist non-destructive testing company based in Oxford and led by Neil Smuts, author of The RAAC Book. It is the UK's specialist in the identification and analysis of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, and a Level 4 UKCSS Operator, the first in the UK to achieve that certification. RAAC surveys in Carlton in Lindrick sit alongside the company's concrete scanning and structural condition survey work, and every report is written to a standard suitable for engineering acceptance, insurers and dispute work.