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In all seriousness, it may be that a lot of countries have something of a mess with RAAC.
Also, while RAAC may have been popular in the UK in public buildings for a span of some decades, it's not at all clear to me that it's not an issue in privately-owned buildings as well. I've seen a handful of articles pointing out that the British government is only acting on their own buildings. They aren't inspecting private-sector buildings.
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Yeah:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/14/uk-public-buildings-feared-to-be-at-risk-of-collapse-as-concrete-crumbles
I read another article that had some professor of civil engineering or something saying that it might be necessary to wind up treating RAAC the way asbestos is treated today -- that is, there is a legal obligation to know if it is present in a building if you own that building.