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Steelwork connection design
A reporter was asked to design connections for a multi-storey building for which the frame had been designed by another engineer. The result was a near collapse situation.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 25
Region: CROSS-UK
Steel portal frame erection
A reporter describes how a steel portal frame collapsed during its erection.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 20
Region: CROSS-UK
Collapse of old masonry walls
There were reports of the collapse of several old masonry walls associated with adjacent construction work.
1 November 2005
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 12
Region: CROSS-UK
Latent shear stud defects
Shear studs appeared to be satisfactory when checked with the standard pull-over to five degrees but when hit with a hammer they snapped off.
1 November 2005
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 13
Region: CROSS-UK
Mobile phone masts
The concern of an overseas reporter is that erection, foundation design and construction, and maintenance of mobile phone masts are not carried out adequately.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 22
Region: CROSS-UK
Precast concrete demolition
During the demolition of a tower block, a column collapsed unexpectedly.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 27
Region: CROSS-UK
Structural steel - reinforced concrete interface
A reporter describes how the substructure of a building was constructed out of position to the extent that the steel frame could not be erected to tolerance and could not be connected to the holding down bolts.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 19
Region: CROSS-UK
Unprotected deep excavation
On a construction site by a busy main road a reporter saw a deep excavation with no internal temporary works.
1 November 2005
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 16
Region: CROSS-UK
Girder collapse
The failure was of a two-storey high trussed girder with a 36m span, designed to carry a composite steel and concrete floor at the lower level and a trussed roof at higher level.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 30
Region: CROSS-UK
Responsibility for change
The inadequate substitution of lintels led to them buckling, and the surrounding masonry cracking.
1 February 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 50
Region: CROSS-UK
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