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Street sign collapse causes fatality
This report highlights the potential dangers of street signs on fixed vertical supports subject to wind loading.
1 October 2018
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 793
Region: CROSS-UK
Design responsibility for temporary stability of steel frame building
A reporter raises concerns about the division of responsibility for the temporary stability of a four-storey steel frame structure with precast concrete planks and a structural topping.
1 April 2019
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 789
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 high strength studs
A reporter raises concerns after several M12 threaded studs snapped not long after installation.
1 April 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 499
Region: CROSS-UK
Flaws with partial encasements around steel columns
A structural assessment found that steel columns encased in concrete to mid-storey height were heavily corroded directly above the top of the encasements.
1 January 2016
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 517
Region: CROSS-UK
Fabrication different from design drawings
A reporter shares their experience of how a propping design they had undertaken was fabricated and installed but not in accordance with the design drawings.
1 July 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 513
Region: CROSS-UK
Estuary bridge - failure of stainless steel tie bars
Concerns were raised after a principal inspection of a bridge found that numerous tie bars connecting the original bridge to strengthened footways had failed.
1 October 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 522
Region: CROSS-UK
Freeze and thaw of another RHS
Further to reports about the freezing of water in hollow sections a correspondent has sent photos of a section of mild steel RHS that was removed from a bridge and shows the bulging that can occur.
1 January 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 485
Region: CROSS-UK
Bolt failures due to hydrogen embrittlement
A reporter recalls how, in the 1970s while working on a bridge refurbishment project, several new zinc electro-plated bolts failed suddenly, and often shortly after installation.
1 April 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 490
Region: CROSS-UK