University of Leicester facing ‘major incident’ over crumbling buildings

Teaching events being relocated while urgent repairs carried out on 1970s structures with degraded concrete

The University of Leicester is dealing with a major incident" over crumbling buildings on campus that will be closed for years and require a major relocation of classes while they undergo repairs.

Two large buildings on the university's main campus, where students attend hundreds of lectures and seminars each academic year, will be closed owing to concrete degradation and the corrosion of steel reinforcements that support the structures.