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Concrete half joints
Poor reinforcement detailing and installation in a half joint led to the collapse of a series of beams and precast concrete slabs.
1 January 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 88
Region: CROSS-UK
Car park staircase collapse at construction joint
The top flight of a staircase to a multi-storey concrete car park collapsed approximately 10 years after construction.
1 July 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 106
Region: CROSS-UK
Precast joint failures
A reporter is interested in CROSS’s evidence about joint failures in concrete. They feel that the same failures keep arising from similar circumstances with none of the lessons having been learnt.
1 July 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 107
Region: CROSS-UK
Unstable concrete blocks
A reporter from a consulting firm was called to a site where the blocks in a retaining wall were found to be expanding and falling apart.
1 April 2010
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 174
Region: CROSS-UK
Collapse of a hollow core unit
This refers to the collapse of one modest span precast hollow core concrete unit and the excessive deflection of others on a building which was under construction.
1 October 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 258
Region: CROSS-UK
Gain in strength of mortar slower than concrete
A masonry wall settled and cracked after four courses of Engineering grade B bricks were substituted (not by the designer) for the original in-situ concrete padstones on cost and handling grounds.
1 April 2010
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 177
Region: CROSS-UK
Asymmetric bridge design and construction – a near miss
During the construction stage of an arch footbridge a design error was identified that had been indirectly revealed by an associated error in construction.
1 October 2011
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 262
Region: CROSS-UK
Boom MEPW falls through precast planks
A high injury potential near-miss (near hit) incident occurred when a mobile elevated working platform (MEPW) fell through a floor at a point where there was a notched precast plank.
1 April 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 359
Region: CROSS-UK
Failure of precast concrete cover slab to circular shaft
A reporter describes how several precast concrete cover slab units collapsed shortly after being installed.
1 April 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 505
Region: CROSS-UK
Risks from off-site manufacture and hybrid construction
A reporter was recently investigating a ‘near miss’ involving concrete construction in which pre-cast and in-situ concrete were used in combination.
1 January 2016
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 529
Region: CROSS-UK
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