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Reports and expert comment on a range of structural safety issues and incidents

The web sites of CROSS (Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety) and SCOSS (Standing Committee on Structural Safety) have now merged to form Structural-Safety.

Structural-Safety works with the professions, industry and government on safety matters concerned with the design, construction and use of building and civil engineering structures.

Newsletter No 24 has just been published and contains reports and expert comment on:

• Asymmetric bridge design and construction – a near miss
• Foundation base plates for tower cranes
• Failure of epoxy fixings due to high temperatures
• Generic designs for steel beams in domestic buildings
• Hoarding blown onto child
• Failed two storey retaining wall
• Lack of control on site when underpinning
• Checking at a price

This article was posted on 20th October 2011 in ALL LATEST NEWS, STRUCTURAL SAFETY.
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