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A reporter is concerned about designers relying completely on the output of software for structural analysis when they do not fully understand the requirements for data input.

A reporter is concerned that inclined screw piles used for underpinning may be subjected to significant bending moments that compromise their capacity.

A reporter is concerned about a widely used software package that does not, in their opinion, generate load combinations in accordance with the Eurocodes being followed.

A reporter was called upon to review a design for the removal of a loadbearing wall during the refurbishment of a residence. A builder was already on site but had stopped work since they considered the engineering design to be unsatisfactory and the structural designer was not responding to their queries. The reporter found that the structural design being followed was far from competent.

A reporter designing a single storey portal frame used a standard roof service loading of 0.25kN/m2. After the project was completed, a tenant for the unit took over fit out and added a considerable amount of sprinkler pipework into the roof. This created local overloading.

This report relates to the design of a low rise modular building and the requirement, or otherwise, for positive fixings between the superstructure and the substructure.

Partial collapse of a shopping mall roof under drifting snow caused by lack of building code provisions for drifting snow and poor fabrication of open web steel joists.

Concerns in respect of the sufficiency of finite element modelling of masonry walls as part of a reinforced concrete framed building.

A reporter has expressed their concern about the structural adequacy of some welded wire mesh balustrade infill panels that they have come across.

Part of a roof collapsed in a factory and warehouse facility shortly after a storm event due to snow drift loads.