Safety information search results
Filter your results
Building or structure type
- Bridges (10)
- Buildings
(69)
- Car parks (1)
- Commercial (4)
- Consequence Class 3 buildings (1)
- Education, science & art buildings (1)
- Health care (1)
- Public, religious & civic buildings (3)
- Recreational buildings (1)
- Residential (19)
- Stadiums (1)
- Storage buildings (1)
- Tall buildings (3)
- Theatres & other entertainment buildings (2)
- Masts & towers (5)
- Railways (5)
- Retaining structures (9)
- Roads (2)
- Sewers (1)
- Temporary structures (7)
Materials
Project or lifecycle stage
Design
Operation or occupation
Fire incident response
Project type
- Alteration & conversion project (5)
- Assessment project [sub-heading only] (1)
- Construction project [sub-heading only] (64)
- Demolition project (3)
- Excavation (9)
- Extension project (4)
- Groundworks project (1)
- New build (43)
- Refurbishment (1)
- Remediation project (3)
- Strengthening project (1)
- Structural assessment (1)
Method of construction
Structural form
Elements & systems
- Arch (1)
- Balconies (4)
- Balustrades (3)
- Basements (4)
- Beams (23)
- Bracing (6)
- Canopies (1)
- Ceilings (5)
- Cladding (5)
- Columns (11)
- Fasteners & connections (31)
- Fire protection (3)
- Foundations (9)
- Light gauge steel framing (2)
- Padstones (2)
- Parapets (1)
- Roofs (6)
- Slabs (9)
- Trusses (1)
- Walls (17)
- Wall ties (2)
- Wind posts (1)
Plant & equipment
Weather & natural hazards
Utilities
Safety reporting
Project delivery methods
Business practice
Locations
Content type
- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 1 (2)
- CROSS-AUS [sub-heading only] (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 2 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 28 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 29 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 30 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 31 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 32 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 33 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 34 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 35 (7)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 36 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 37 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 38 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 39 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 40 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 41 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 42 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 43 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 44 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 45 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 46 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 47 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 48 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 49 (6)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 50 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 51 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 52 (4)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 53 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 54 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 55 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 59 (5)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 60 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 61 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 65 (1)
- CROSS-UK [sub-heading only] (108)
- (-) CROSS Newsletter (118)
- CROSS Safety Report (118)
- News [sub-heading only] (16)
CROSS regions
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
Checking reinforcement before concrete pours
A reporter shares their concerns about incorrect rebar positioning on site prior to concrete being poured.
1 July 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 894
Region: CROSS-UK
Glazing design and horizontal barrier loading
A reporter shares problems they have encountered with barrier loading requirements on a curtain walling glazing system.
1 July 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 899
Region: CROSS-UK
Consequences of low professional fees
An engineer believes that despite public concerns about workmanship issues on site, low professional fees mean that engineers are not able to adequately check the work on site.
1 July 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 905
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
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
Fire protection of mixed hot/cold rolled steel structure
This report describes how a high-rise building had to be remediated after it was found there was insufficient fire protection encasement of structural elements.
1 July 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 921
Region: CROSS-UK
Inadequate punching shear reinforcement in flat slabs
This report highlights how remedial works were required in a number of residential buildings after inadequate punching shear reinforcement was identified.
14 October 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 950
Region: CROSS-UK