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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
Execution not matching design assumptions
This report highlights how the connection of steel columns to twin beams acting as a transfer beam was overlooked and created an eccentric loading condition.
14 October 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 968
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
Fire risks in multi-storey car parks
A reporter is concerned by the reluctance of the industry to voluntarily take on board and proactively react to the lessons learnt from the fire at the Echo Arena car park in Liverpool.
14 October 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 940
Region: CROSS-UK
Inadequate bolted connections supporting stairs
Concerns are raised over the safe design and installation of rolled steel angles (RSA) used to support heavy precast stair and landing units.
1 April 2017
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 615
Region: CROSS-UK
Contractor installs incorrect steel grade
A reporter came across an issue where the fabricator had used cold formed S235 commodity steel SHS rather than the specified hot formed S275 structural steel SHS.
1 April 2018
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 634
Region: CROSS-UK
Padstones out of position leads to collapse
This report concerns the partial collapse of a terrace of four storey houses during construction due to padstones being placed incorrectly.
1 April 2017
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 602
Region: CROSS-UK
Further report on freezing of water in hollow sections
A reporter has a further warning on the issue of freeze/thaw cracking following report 434 after their firm encountered a similar problem on a UK project and investigated the matter.
1 January 2017
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 579
Region: CROSS-UK
Square Hollow Section (SHS) expansion due to freezing
A reporter has come across problems in British Columbia (temp range -30 degrees to +40 degrees) of cracking to square hollow sections (SHS) due to the ingress of water and freezing.
1 April 2017
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 641
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