Pieces of concrete fall on a playground, happy for the school: We are already since 2010 on the waiting list for renovation

Gent At the kunsthumaniora Sint-Lucas on the Oude Houtlei Gent are fragments of concrete Monday morning in the early hours of a facade to the playground cases. At that moment there was still no one present in the school and the classes went Monday through. “Tomorrow we get to hear what we have to do.”

The cleaning ladies that Monday morning at 5.50 am on the school arrived, reported the damage to the school board. “The fragments were around 5.30 pm fallen down”, says managing director Karen Verhamme. That she knows because internaatleerlingen in an adjacent building, the night had become of the noise. “There was still no one present in the school and there are no injuries. We have immediately decided to have the classes not to continue in the two buildings of the school. We are truly lucky that the debris at a relatively good time have had to come down.”

Three days

The fragments were part of the top of an inner façade that opens onto the playground. The fire brigade checked to see if the rest of the facade and the roof was stable and made the last of the debris loose. Later in the morning came to the city architect . “He has determined that everything a contractor needs to be checked,” says Verhamme.