Tag: Bridge

The Hebo 10 lifts the 650-tonne span into placeMain contractor Farrans Construction commissioned the 2,200-tonne capacity Hebo Lift 10 floating sheerleg crane to set the 650-tonne main span. The cable-stayed opening swing bridge will provide pedestrian and cycle access across the River Clyde between Water...

The Tyne BridgeEsh Construction has already had to wait until the end of the kittiwake nesting season before starting work on the bridge, and now it has been ordered to take special measures to protect fish. The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has imposed several conditions...

CGI of the planned bridgeGuildford Borough Council appointed VolkerFitzpatrick in July as main contractor for a long-planned bridge over a railway line next to Ash station. Construction of the Ash Road Bridge will see the closure of the level crossing on the A323 Guildford Road....

Photo of progress taken in June [gullwingbridge.co.uk]. The main bascule span is expected to be installed in the new year.When construction contractor Farrans agreed a £76m price in September 2020 to build the Gull Wing, Lowestoft’s third crossing over Lake Lothing, the bridge was expected...

The first step has been to drill out concrete cores from the infilled archIn 2021 Highways England, as it then was, caused quite a stir when filled the arch under a bridge with hundreds of tonnes of aggregate and concrete. At a cost of £124,000...

Speedy work got the motorway reopened in just 42 hours instead of the planned 56A team of 20 demolition experts and 10 excavators removed the 40-metre long, 10-metre wide bridge during a planned 56 hour closure of the M42 motorway. Armac Demolition removed the two-span...

The planned cycle/footbridge over the Trent A bridge is being built to connect pedestrians and cyclists in the Lady Bay area south of the river with the Trent Basin waterside housing estate on the north side of the river, close to Nottingham city centre. It...

Weldex did the heavy lifting for Keltbray and CostainThe Tolgroggan access bridge has spanned the A30 near Zelah for 32 years but had to be replaced to accommodate a new dual carriageway under construction between Chiverton to Carland Cross Principal contractor for the £330m project...

The southern piled viaduct is to be replacedWork will start in the summer and is set to take two years to complete. The project will involve demolishing the Kincardine Bridge’s southern piled viaduct and replacing it with a new reinforced concrete structure. The southern piled...

A temporary jetty provided access to coffer dams Once complete, the 2.1-mile (3.4km) bridge will carry the new rail line across a series of lakes and waterways near Hillingdon on the northwest outskirts of London. It will be 100-metres longer than Dundee’s Tay Bridge, which...

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...

An aerial view showing the bridge and route of the old railway to its northeast (© The HRE Group)King’s Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council has told National Highways to apply for retrospective planning permission for a controversial bridge infilling scheme in the borough. National...

Freyssinet jacked the bridge a distance of 163 metres at four metres per hourAccording to HS2 Ltd, installation of the Marston Box bridge represents the world’s longest box slide. Around 450 people from Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV) – HS2’s construction contractor in the Midlands –...

The 1,450-tonne bridge section is lowered into its final position (All pictures: Suffolk County Council)Farrans Construction, Suffolk County Council’s main contractor for the £76m project, was supported by Dutch heavylift specialist Mammoet for the complex engineering operation. The North Approach Viaduct (NAV1) section arrived at...

The council wants to put another deck on top of Bazalgette's Hammersmith Bridge A decision to lodge a planning application for the double-decker temporary truss solution was among a £5m package of measures agreed by Hammersmith & Fulham’s cabinet this week. Planning will require consultation...