A house in Inch Island, built in 2008, which is now crackling and crumbling due to the presence of defective blocks.
The house was visited by leading international experts in geology, earth sciences and engineering who research the impacts of deleterious minerals on concrete from Canada, the USA, Switzerland and Norway. They travelled to the North West to speak about their own research at an international conference, held in Letterkenny, on the science and social impact of defective blocks. as well as to learn more about the issue in Ireland.