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- CROSS-UK Newsletter 2 (1)
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Effective lengths of load-bearing walls
A reporter raises concerns about masonry walls that they feel do not comply with the limitations on effective length.
1 July 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 56
Region: CROSS-UK
Building regulations submissions
This report has been written on behalf of a group of senior local government structural engineers who refer to previous CROSS newsletters and in particular the reports relating to the poor quality of building regulation submissions and lack of checking resources.
1 July 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 65
Region: CROSS-UK
Serious injury from free standing wall collapse
A 100mm wide brick masonry wall in a garden collapsed seriously injuring one person.
1 January 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 94
Region: CROSS-UK
Proper design and use of cold rolled steel frames
A reporter has been designing structures in cold rolled steel for approximately twenty years, mainly portal frame buildings, and some concerns.
1 January 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 93
Region: CROSS-UK
Stability of timber frame construction
A reporter who has many years design experience in timber frame construction raises concerns about a common defect they have experienced when checking calculations.
1 February 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 51
Region: CROSS-UK
Building regulations checking
A reporter’s firm has been carrying out building regulations checks for 25 years, but it is only in the last six or seven years (say 2000-2006) that concerns have arisen, some of which are described below.
1 July 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 33
Region: CROSS-UK
Timber design concerns
A reporter says what he has seen of the quality of the structural engineering design of roofs in many hundreds of projects is lamentably low.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 21
Region: CROSS-UK
Certification of seismic design software
A reporter is concerned about third party certification of seismic design software and believes that users should carefully consider the assumptions that have been made in any such program.
1 October 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 377
Region: CROSS-UK
Proprietary software for cantilevers
A reporter discovered an error in a proprietary software program.
1 October 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 391
Region: CROSS-UK
Steelwork connection design
A reporter is concerned that on small domestic projects, steelwork fabricators are appointed who do not have the expertise to design connections or prepare fabrication drawings.
1 October 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 393
Region: CROSS-UK