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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.

A reporter was performing a CAT III check on a 14 storey slipform design when they discovered that the temporary works design was inadequate.

Vibration within the floor structure of a second floor gym gives rise to concern of structural resonance and possible fatigue of structural members.

A reporter’s firm has been involved in the design and checking of numerous tower crane bases and have come across many examples where the supplier of the tower crane has supplied incorrect loadings. These incorrect loadings could have led to crane failures had the errors not been spotted.