CROSS Safety Report: Temporary festival stage – an extreme example of bad practice

The Institution of Structural Engineers summarises its proposed response to the Phase 2 report of the Grenfell Inquiry, following a government request for professional bodies to act on the report's recommendations.

As the summer event season gets under way in the UK, we present a CROSS safety report highlighting the need for robust inspections of temporary demountable structures.

A previous Conservation compendium article, 'Part 7: Imposed load in historic buildings: assessing what is real' , looked at assessing realistic live loads in historic buildings. This article considers the philosophy of factors of safety and how they should or should not be applied to older structures.