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Open balustrade balconies over a public highway
A reporter raises concerns about the construction of a large residential development adjacent to a public highway where the balconies over sail the footpath.
1 October 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 495
Region: CROSS-UK
Safety issues with partly demolished site
Safety issues arose after a city centre development site was left partly demolished due to delays and a change of ownership.
1 April 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 500
Region: CROSS-UK
Tower crane - failure of loadbearing part
A tower crane suffered a failure of one of its four main legs approximately 12m below the slew ring.
1 October 2014
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 399
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
Emergency motorway lane closure during concrete repairs
This report highlights how confusion during concrete repair works led to an unplanned emergency lane closure of a bridge carrying a motorway.
1 July 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 926
Region: CROSS-UK
Safe use of lifting magnets
A reporter highlights how a two-tonne lift using magnetic lifting equipment was abandoned, averting a potential high consequence event.
1 October 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 849
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
Disproportionate collapse assessment of large panel system buildings
A reporter has become concerned by the approach being taken by some engineers to assess the risk of disproportionate collapse due to fire in large panel system (LPS) buildings.
1 January 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 885
Region: CROSS-UK
Incorrectly installed tension control bolts could have led to serious consequences
A reporter finds incorrectly installed system HRC preload bolt assemblies, better known as tension control bolts, during a site inspection of a new highway bridge over a railway. The incorrectly fitted bolts could have had major structural implications, and led to other safety risks, if the installation error had not been spotted.
24 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1196
Region: CROSS-UK
Collapse of a reinforcing cage
The reinforcing cage to a blade pier for an overpass bridge collapsed without warning when nearing completion.
1 August 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 941
Region: CROSS-AUS