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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
Post-tensioned precast concrete tank failure
A utility company suffered a sudden and catastrophic failure of a concrete tank at a sewage treatment works.
1 July 2009
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 147
Region: CROSS-UK
Liquid metal assisted cracking - update
This 2006 note is an update of the SCOSS Topic Paper from 2004. It draws attention to Publication No 40/05, by the British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) and the Galvanisers’ Association entitled ‘An approach to the management of Liquid Metal Assisted Cracking’.
1 March 2006
CROSS Topic Paper
Region: CROSS-UK
Thermal effects on long span concrete car park beams
A reporter describes how long span precast hollow core units in a car park started to bow upwards due to thermal effects.
1 October 2010
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 173
Region: CROSS-UK
Freezing splits galvanised SHS columns
Concerns were raised after several square hollow section members split vertically on a partially complete construction site.
1 April 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 253
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
Documentation for imported large diameter steel pins
A reporter raises concerns over the possibility that foreign steel with poor, confusing or misleading documentation, is being used on safety critical structures in the UK.
1 January 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 299
Region: CROSS-UK
Nuts falling from tension glazing system
A reporter raises concerns about the fixings used in a tension glazing system.
1 July 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 340
Region: CROSS-UK
Further issues with freezing and galvanised hollow sections
A reporter was involved in correcting a cold formed galvanised square hollow section (SHS) four storey balcony structure where longitudinal splits formed in at least two of the four columns.
1 January 2014
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 314
Region: CROSS-UK
Concern about bridge hangers
A reporter is concerned that a failure in recent years involving the cast connections at each end of vertical bars, which connected to a bow string arch at one end and to a bridge deck at the other, may be in use elsewhere.
1 July 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 222
Region: CROSS-UK