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- CROSS-AUS Newsletter 3 (1)
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CROSS regions
Inadequate steel beam splice
A reporter raises concerns of an inadequate steel beam splice they came across on site.
1 October 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 343
Region: CROSS-UK
Retaining wall excavation collapse
A 6m deep excavation formed for constructing a retaining wall on a domestic project collapsed due to insufficient propping.
1 July 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 800
Region: CROSS-UK
Failure of waling beam connected to raking prop
A reporter discusses how they witnessed the failure of a temporary support for an excavation on site due to similar design issues discussed in CROSS report 298 (Props to large excavations).
1 July 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 813
Region: CROSS-UK
Bridge bearing design and installation - further concerns raised
A reporter says that the issue of successful co-ordination between designers, contractors and specialist bearing suppliers is one they have experienced.
1 January 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 796
Region: CROSS-UK
Quality of design and construction of a major bridge structure
This report concerns the design and installation of the bridge bearing zones on a new prestressed precast concrete viaduct.
1 October 2018
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 781
Region: CROSS-UK
Repeating the same design mistakes
A correspondent who investigates engineering failures has shared common errors which engineers keep repeating.
1 October 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 858
Region: CROSS-UK
No structural design for steel portal frame building
A reporter is concerned that, in some cases, no structural design is carried out for steel portal framed buildings.
1 January 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 866
Region: CROSS-UK
Failure of pile load test arrangement
A pile was being load-tested, for confirmation of design pile loads for the foundations of a road bridge, when the web of the deep steel beam used in the testing arrangement buckled.
1 January 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 484
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
Contractor varies structural design intention
A reporter was made aware by the building owner of an unauthorised structural alteration that had been made on site.
1 January 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 420
Region: CROSS-UK