News & events

CROSS-UK Newsletter 74 - featuring the latest fire and structural safety reports, and other building safety updates.

"Competence is non-negotiable". Read the editorial for CROSS-UK Newsletter 74 from Hayley Burgess, IFE International President and CROSS-UK Expert Panel member.

The thoughts of everyone here at CROSS are with all those impacted by the Grenfell fire as this final report is now made public.

Congratulations to all the winners at last month’s People and Papers Awards, including four key members of the CROSS community.

A Newsletter from CROSS-AUS containing reports on structural safety issues.

CROSS-UK Newsletter 73 has been published and includes expert comment on fire and structural safety reports.

The CROSS Fire team attend The Fire Safety Show at NEC Birmingham

The UK Bridges Board (UKBB), the Bridge Owners Forum (BOF) and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) have come together to highlight the importance of precursor events and encourage those in the bridges sector to report to CROSS-UK.

CROSS’s Lead Fire Safety Consultant, Neil Gibbins joins the Building Safety Competence Foundation (BSCF) on their Board of Directors.

On October 10th, 2023, a fire started on level 3 of Luton Airport’s Terminal Car Park 2. The fire spread rapidly through the structure, ultimately causing significant collapse. Neil Gibbins, Lead Fire Safety Consultant and Alastair Soane, Principal Consultant for CROSS reflect on the incident.