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- CROSS-UK Newsletter 2 (4)
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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
Spalled concrete falls from rear face of drilled hole 26 floors up
A reporter describes how during drilling, an operator over drilled the hole causing spalling on the back face of the concrete.
1 July 2017
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 639
Region: CROSS-UK
Concrete grade confusion in software
A reporter noticed that the design calculation report generated by a proprietary software package called for ‘concrete characteristic strength = 45N/mm2’, but did not confirm whether this refers to the cylinder or cube strength.
1 April 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 788
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
Design responsibility for temporary stability of steel frame building
A reporter raises concerns about the division of responsibility for the temporary stability of a four-storey steel frame structure with precast concrete planks and a structural topping.
1 April 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 789
Region: CROSS-UK
Unauthorised structural alterations to accommodate drainpipes
A reporter became aware of cases where main structural steel sections were ‘butchered’ on site to accommodate drainpipes.
1 July 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 902
Region: CROSS-UK
Contractor uses incorrect fixing bolts for masonry support angles
A correspondent noticed that proprietary masonry support angles specified to support the outer leaf of masonry had been incorrectly connected to the steel beam using carriage bolts.
1 July 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 794
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
Workmanship in domestic buildings
A reporter has raised concerns after discovering a steel beam on site had its web cut away at the support without approval from the design engineer.
14 October 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 971
Region: CROSS-UK
Unconservative design of flat slab due to software modelling issues
A reporter discusses how a design/modelling problem caused an under-designed reinforced concrete (RC) slab to be constructed.
1 April 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 886
Region: CROSS-UK