A Newsletter from CROSS-UK containing reports on structural safety issues.
Note: this Newsletter was published by CROSS (Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety). Since March 2021, Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety is renamed Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures (CROSS).
Newsletter content
Cost of design standard for scaffolding
The reporter is concerned that designers will not use the design standard for access scaffolding due to its high price.
Dangerous alterations to steel beam supports
A local authority building control officer went to site and witnessed on an upper floor that the columns had been removed out of sequence, before the new frame had been constructed.
Gallows brackets for supporting chimney breasts
A reporter has seen suggestions that gallows brackets are suitable for support after the removal of internal chimney breasts.
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.
Cladding panel blown off
A reporter has become aware of an incident where a decorative cladding panel fell from an upper level of a multi-storey building in high winds.
PV panels blown off roof
Concerns are raised about the adequacy of fixings for PV panels after panels were blown off of a flat roof.
Estuary bridge - failure of stainless steel tie bars
Concerns were raised after a principal inspection of a bridge found that numerous tie bars connecting the original bridge to strengthened footways had failed.
Spalling concrete falling from motorway bridge
A major infrastructure owner reports on how an incident occurred at a motorway overbridge resulting in a piece of spalling concrete falling onto the carriageway and striking a vehicle.
PV panels on domestic roof
A reporter raises concerns as they suspect PV panels are being erected on domestic (and commercial) roofs across the UK without adequate engineering analysis and design.
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