CROSS Safety Report: Overestimation of lateral torsional buckling restraints

This month's report discusses an unusual steelwork connection found during an inspection of an existing structure.

This month's CROSS Report concerns the modelling of steel frame joints when using computer programs.

CROSS-UK was expanded to cover fire safety reporting following recommendations by Dame Judith Hackitt in her post-Grenfell report Building a Safer Future . This month we present a fire safety report illustrating the implications of substituting a product within a tested system without further testing or justification.