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Metal cladding panels fail and fall to ground
During high winds, a number of metal cladding panels failed and fell to the ground from a tall commercial building in a major UK city.
26 August 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1134
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
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
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
Offshore tower failure
The top two thirds of a three part off-shore lattice mast failed due to problems with some of the connection bolts.
1 January 2014
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 358
Region: CROSS-UK
Dislodged finger plate on highway bridge
A correspondent received a report about a 1.5m long section of a steel finger plate expansion joint on a highway bridge that had been inadequately fixed and became dislodged.
1 February 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 879
Region: CROSS-AUS
Execution not matching design assumptions
This report highlights how the connection of steel columns to twin beams acting as a transfer beam was overlooked and created an eccentric loading condition.
14 October 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 968
Region: CROSS-UK
Swimming pool ceiling collapses
A reporter writes about the collapses of two swimming pool ceilings due to failure of the fixings.
14 October 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 946
Region: CROSS-UK
Lack of lateral stability in steel frame
Concerns were raised after the steel frame of a building was found to have a lack of horizontal and vertical bracing.
1 July 2016
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 540
Region: CROSS-UK
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