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Concerns over structural design submissions
Concern was expressed about the standard of structural design submissions presented to local authorities.
1 November 2005
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 14
Region: CROSS-UK
Low pitched metal sheet roofs
A reporter is concerned about low pitch metal sheet roofing attached to trussed rafters.
1 April 2007
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 66
Region: CROSS-UK
Wind damage to secondary elements
A period of storm force winds, with wind speeds approaching design levels, resulted in damage to secondary roofing and cladding elements.
1 July 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 42
Region: CROSS-UK
School roof timber truss collapse
A gym/assembly hall roof to a school collapsed suddenly and without warning overnight when fortunately the building was unoccupied.
1 January 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 249
Region: CROSS-UK
Overloading a portal frame with suspended services
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.
21 August 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1195
Region: CROSS-UK
Tension systems and post-drilled fixings
Lining failures occurred in the Boston (Big Dig) tunnel in 2006, in the Balcome rail tunnel in the UK in 2011 and in Japan’s Sasago tunnel (2012); all related to the use of unsuitable fixings.
1 March 2014
CROSS Safety Alert
Region: CROSS-UK, CROSS-AUS, CROSS-US
Non-structural roof soffit linings - failure
A reporter has observed the occurrence of compressed fibre cement sheets becoming dislodged from the soffit of several buildings in Australia.
1 January 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 462
Region: CROSS-UK
Structural issues with cladding
A reporter who investigates cladding failures shares common issues they have encountered.
1 April 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 904
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
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