CROSS-UK Newsletter 76

CROSS UK Newsletter 76 has been published and includes expert comments on fire and structural safety reports.

Reports in this Newsletter cover the following:

• Inadequate means of escape from temporary sporting venue structures
• Concern over the experience of a highway authority appointee
• Unventilated void has the potential to fill with natural gas
• Poor retaining wall design threatens stability of a multi-storey steel frame building
• Confusion over fire resistance of lintels
• Sudden failure of several RAAC roof panels
• Assumptions about an older building's fire resistance leads to rapid fire spread
• Robustness of certain Consequence Class 2a buildings
• Fire protection of  timber frames
• Overestimation of lateral torsional buckling restraints