This online presentation will cover the following:
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CROSS purpose and aims.
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The confidential reporting process, what can be reported and the benefits.
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The safety information CROSS provides and where to find it.
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How the publication of the Hackitt Report into the Grenfell tragedy changed CROSS’s remit.
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The significant input that CROSS has had in preparing for the RAAC crisis, and the importance of other CROSS reports from recent years.
Speaker
Alastair Soane, CROSS UK
Alastair is a founding member of CROSS where he is now a Consultant and member of the CROSS Technical Board. He was responsible for setting up CROSS UK and for introducing CROSS in Australasia and the USA.
Alastair was a founding member and Director of CROSS, and then Structural-Safety, from 2005 to 2021. In 2021, he became a Consultant and a member of the CROSS Technical Board.
Previously CEO of a consulting firm, he has extensive experience in the design and constuction of major building and structural projects in the UK and internationally. He has had a long interest in safety and forensic engineering, and has a Sir Arnold Walters Medal, a Lewis Kent Award and a President’s Award from the Institution of Structural Engineers. The American Society of Civil Engineers presented him with their Forensic Engineering Award for 2021 and, in the same year, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers.
Author of numerous publications, for many years he was visiting professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Liverpool, and is a Past President of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers.