Tag: Beams

Highfurlong Brook viaduct is taking shapeThey may have cancelled the northern links but construction of the abbreviated HS2 rail line between Birmingham and London continues. The 163-metre long Highfurlong Brook viaduct, near the village of Aston le Walls, between Banbury and Daventry,  is one of...

Each section was 48 metres long and weighed 56 tonnesThe four bridge sections were manufactured by Severfield in Bolton and they were transported by road 40 miles to Halifax by heavy transport specialist Collett. With each measuring 48 metres long and weighing 56 tonnes, these...

The 12.5m wide beams took 12 weeks to be built from cutting the plate from the rolling mill, fabrication, grit blasting and trial fitting before being transported to the project site. The A533 Expressway Bridge is a concrete bridge that carries the Chester Road combined...

Ainscough's LTM 1650-8.1 in action. This crane can lift 700 tonnes at three metres radiusThe video shows Ainscough's eight-axle Liebherr LTM 1650-8.1 crane lifting steelwork for the bridge beams – 268 tonnes in total. The steel beams, measuring 12.5 metres long, took 12 weeks to be...