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Repeating the same design mistakes
A correspondent who investigates engineering failures has shared common errors which engineers keep repeating.
1 October 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 858
Region: CROSS-UK
Weld de-specification without design approval
A reporter's firm was engaged as fabricators for a main contractor and asked by them to de-specify full and partial penetration butt welds and replace them with fillet welds without approval from the main design engineer.
14 October 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 845
Region: CROSS-UK
No structural design for steel portal frame building
A reporter is concerned that, in some cases, no structural design is carried out for steel portal framed buildings.
1 January 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 866
Region: CROSS-UK
Rotting of cross-laminated timber (CLT) roof panels
This report highlights how a reporter discovered rotted CLT roof panels during the investigation of a roof that had been leaking for a few years.
1 October 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 852
Region: CROSS-UK
Post-tensioned slab failure during tendon stressing operations
A reporter disseminates the lessons learned after the end of a slab burst while stressing the tendons in a post-tensioned concrete slab.
1 April 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 882
Region: CROSS-UK
Propping of post-tensioned slabs during construction
A reporter raises their concerns after an infill slab strip was not poured in time which resulted in overloading of the slab below during a concrete pour.
1 April 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 873
Region: CROSS-UK
Principal designers’ obligations for temporary works
A correspondent believes that the new BS5975 standard places some onerous temporary work duties on the principal designer.
1 January 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 870
Region: CROSS-UK