Safety information search results
Filter your results
Building or structure type
Materials
Project or lifecycle stage
Design
Fire incident response
Project type
- Alteration & conversion project (9)
- Assessment project [sub-heading only] (2)
- Construction project [sub-heading only] (41)
- Demolition project (1)
- Excavation (2)
- Extension project (6)
- New build (28)
- Refurbishment (4)
- Remediation project (6)
- Repair project (2)
- Strengthening project (1)
- Structural assessment (2)
Method of construction
Elements & systems
- Balconies (1)
- Balustrades (1)
- Basements (2)
- (-) Beams (81)
- Bracing (6)
- Cables (1)
- Ceilings (1)
- Cladding (1)
- Columns (14)
- Fasteners & connections (23)
- Fire protection (1)
- Foundations (4)
- Light gauge steel framing (1)
- Lintels (1)
- Padstones (5)
- Parapets (1)
- Roofs (6)
- Slabs (10)
- Tendons (1)
- Trusses (1)
- Walls (8)
Plant & equipment
Weather & natural hazards
Utilities
Safety reporting
Project delivery methods
Business practice
Public incidents
Locations
Content type
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 1 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 2 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 4 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 9 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 11 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 12 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 18 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 20 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 26 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 28 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 31 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 32 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 33 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 35 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 36 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 37 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 39 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 40 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 43 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 44 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 45 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 46 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 47 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 48 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 49 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 50 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 51 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 52 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 54 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 55 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 56 (3)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 57 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 59 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 60 (2)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 61 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 62 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 65 (1)
- CROSS-UK Newsletter 67 (2)
- CROSS-UK [sub-heading only] (50)
- CROSS Newsletter (38)
- CROSS Safety Alert (1)
- CROSS Safety Report (80)
- News [sub-heading only] (10)
CROSS regions
Demolition risks
This report is about the collapse of a flat slab building that occurred overseas whilst the top floor of the building was being demolished onto the next floor down.
1 January 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 96
Region: CROSS-UK
Proper design and use of cold rolled steel frames
A reporter has been designing structures in cold rolled steel for approximately twenty years, mainly portal frame buildings, and some concerns.
1 January 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 93
Region: CROSS-UK
Dangerous building work on domestic project
Temporary propping fails during works to a semi-detached property putting the whole building at risk of collapse.
10 March 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1062
Region: CROSS-UK
Inadequate design for basement works
An inadequate structural design for alterations to a basement led to structural distress within a substantial five-storey townhouse.
21 November 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1132
Region: CROSS-UK
Incorrectly installed tension control bolts could have led to serious consequences
A reporter finds incorrectly installed system HRC preload bolt assemblies, better known as tension control bolts, during a site inspection of a new highway bridge over a railway. The incorrectly fitted bolts could have had major structural implications, and led to other safety risks, if the installation error had not been spotted.
24 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1196
Region: CROSS-UK
Incompetent design of simple steel beams
This report concerns designs for simple steel beams submitted to building control bodies under Part A of the Building Regulations. The reporter, a checking engineer for a building control body, was not able to accept the effective length and restraints assumed in a number of submitted designs. Most originated from individuals who used proprietary structural design computer packages without, i...
24 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1183
Region: CROSS-UK
Durability issues with engineered timber
A reporter has observed durability issues with engineered timber when there is water ingress or condensation issues. It appears to disintegrate significantly more than a conventional timber, resulting in structural failure rather than distortion.
21 February 2024
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1275
Region: CROSS-UK
Failure of cast iron beams
In 1988 there was a collapse of a cast iron roof beam within a jack arch construction, in a house within a London terrace.
1 January 2003
CROSS Safety Alert
Region: CROSS-UK
Poor quality design leads to failure for a small design and build contract
An example of a small design and build contract where poor design and management led to an inadequate structure being built.
6 June 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1088
Region: CROSS-UK
Collapse of unusual hybrid concrete and steel strand truss on school roof
This report concerns the collapse of a school hall roof which resulted from the failure of one of a number of unusual hybrid concrete and steel strand trusses. The trusses consist of a precast reinforced concrete top chord and verticals with a bottom chord of tensioned steel strands. The failure of the truss resulted in the collapse of the supported flat roof local to the failed truss, and da...
25 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1227
Region: CROSS-UK