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Poor quality design leads to failure for a small design and build contract
An example of a small design and build contract where poor design and management led to an inadequate structure being built.
6 June 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1088
Region: CROSS-UK
Cantilevered brickwork - fatal collapse during construction
A blade of 270mm cavity brickwork in a temporary condition fell and killed a bricklayer after sixteen scaffold planks were leant against the wall on the side remote from the bricklayer.
1 April 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 476
Region: CROSS-UK
Stability of terraced buildings
A reporter is concerned about a terrace of four buildings the third of which is being opened up.
1 April 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 448
Region: CROSS-UK
Unbraced temporary props
An alarming photograph has been sent by a contributor.
1 January 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 482
Region: CROSS-UK
Inadequate end bearings for transfer beams
Whilst advising a steel fabricator on tendering for a transfer structure steel frame, a reporter's firm noticed a serious design error with the bearing pressures at the supports of a transfer beam.
1 October 2017
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 644
Region: CROSS-UK
Unauthorised alterations to Light Gauge Steel Framing on site
Concerns were raised after Light Gauge Steel Framing (LGSF) acting as a structural system was trimmed locally on site to accommodate the installation of balcony brackets without approval from the design team.
1 July 2018
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 669
Region: CROSS-UK
Lack of method statements on domestic projects
A reporter has observed that where an opening is being formed on domestic properties for, say a rear extension, that the builders tend to remove the masonry and follow up with the temporary propping.
1 January 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 757
Region: CROSS-UK
Inadequate structural design for domestic properties
A reporter has recently been asked to redesign several projects for domestic extensions/alterations, where two structural problems were found.
1 January 2018
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 703
Region: CROSS-UK
Unsafe removal of internal walls
A reporter was requested to advise on the removal of some internal walls in a decades’ old multi storey block of council flats after they were removed.
1 October 2018
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 714
Region: CROSS-UK
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