Category: bridges
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Suicide prevention guidance released for highways sector
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Elizabeth Pettersen, high risk locations programme manager at Samaritans, added: “Suicide is not inevitable, and together we can help prevent it. The road sector has an important role to play in making sure suicide prevention is considered at every stage, from design through to maintenance. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Balfour uses temporary structure during medieval bridge refurb
Russell Ward, major projects sales manager at Mabey Hire, added: “Space was extremely limited on site, with existing buildings in close proximity, as well as footpaths and other furniture on both banks. All of this meant that we only had a very small footprint in which to assemble and manoeuvre the bridge. View the original…
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Video | Murphy installs Greek Street bridge beams in four days
New footage shows Murphy installing the beams for Stockport’s new Greek Street bridge in just four days. Over the last two weeks, the contractor has dismantled and removed 200 beams from the old structure, and lifted and positioned beams for its replacement over five railway lines. Each of the large steel and concrete beams was…
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Video | Murphy installs Greek Street bridge beams in four days
New footage shows Murphy installing the beams for Stockport’s new Greek Street bridge in just four days. Over the last two weeks, the contractor has dismantled and removed 200 beams from the old structure, and lifted and positioned beams for its replacement over five railway lines. Each of the large steel and concrete beams was…
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Video | Skanska receives huge steel beams for new Penrith railway bridge
Skanska has overseen the delivery of five huge ‘VIBs’ (very important beams) that will be used for major sections of a replacement railway bridge over the M6 next year. The contractor is delivering the £60m project for Network Rail to replace Clifton railway bridge near Penrith after the old bridge reached the end of its life…
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Video | Sequence trial assembly ahead of Stockport bridge construction
(Credit: Network Rail) Drone footage shows the trial assembly of huge concrete components of a £20m bridge and roundabout that Murphy is building for Network Rail in Stockport. The video captures how the components for the bridge have been made and tested over recent months at a huge manufacturing site in Ireland. The bridge components…
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Video | Timelapse shows Esh installing beams at Stockton bridge project
Footage shows Esh Construction installing 47 precast concrete bridge beams across four days at the £23m Stockton Waterfront urban park project. The beams were installed with support from reinforced concrete specialist BEMAC Construction to form the land bridge above the A1305 Riverside Road carriageway. They were manufactured by Shay Murtagh Precast in Ireland and include…
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Balfour Beatty to build 85m-long arch bridge in Nottingham
The proposed walking and cycling bridge (Image: Nottingham City Council) Balfour Beatty has signed a £12.6m delivery agreement with Nottingham City Council for an 85m-long walking and cycling bridge over the River Trent. The network arch bridge will link the north side of the river, where the new Trent Basin community of 350 homes is…
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Tackling Germany’s crumbling infrastructure – Construction Management
But then, on 6 November, something else collapsed: Germany’s coalition government. Tensions bubbling among the ruling Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats (FDP) boiled over when SPD chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his FDP finance minister, Christian Lindner, leading to mass resignations of FDP ministers. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Video | Graham installs beams on new Glasgow road
Graham has installed nine 17m-long precast concrete beams at the new Brock Burn road bridge over two days using a 500 tonne-capacity crane. The project is part of the £22.68m Aurs Road project to upgrade the road between Barrhead and Newton Mearns, Glasgow. The road will create a new active travel route along Balgray Reservoir in…