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Car park staircase collapse at construction joint
The top flight of a staircase to a multi-storey concrete car park collapsed approximately 10 years after construction.
1 July 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 106
Region: CROSS-UK
Precast joint failures
A reporter is interested in CROSS’s evidence about joint failures in concrete. They feel that the same failures keep arising from similar circumstances with none of the lessons having been learnt.
1 July 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 107
Region: CROSS-UK
Multi-storey car parks - structural condition concerns
A reporter raises concerns about the structural condition of a number of car parks that they have worked on as remediation projects.
1 April 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 265
Region: CROSS-UK
Compatibility at RC column to slab joint - strong column/weak slab
A reporter who was reviewing the structural design of a commercial building raises concerns over the compatibility at column/slab joints when different grades of concrete are used.
1 April 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 296
Region: CROSS-UK
Unsuitable underpinning
When reviewing a consulting engineer’s proposal to underpin a party wall, the reporter noticed that there was insufficient vertical load to maintain stability under lateral load from the retained height of soil.
1 July 2010
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 175
Region: CROSS-UK
Structural assessments of multi-storey car parks
The parking industry has in recent years (2012) seen several MSCPs closed due to structural fears, says a reporter, which begs the question how close were they to structural failure before they were taken out of service?
1 April 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 224
Region: CROSS-UK
Asymmetric bridge design and construction – a near miss
During the construction stage of an arch footbridge a design error was identified that had been indirectly revealed by an associated error in construction.
1 October 2011
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 262
Region: CROSS-UK
Design deficiencies in calculations submitted to a Local Authority
A Local Authority Building Control manager has sent a list which gives twenty nine of the more serious design review queries raised by the building control structural checking process over the last five years.
1 October 2010
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 210
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