Thebuildingcontractorteamshould havestructuralengineerswho are able toundertake theplanningandsafetyaspectsof thedesign to ensure thatthe finished product isup to standards.
Volvo's U.S. manager of productsafety and compliance, Adam Kopstein, says his company's engineers began doing tests to simulate small-overlap crashes in the 1980s after analyzing data collected from car accidents in Sweden and other countries.