Tag: 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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Building New Data Bridges in AEC
The AEC sector’s longstanding problem is the lack of data flow among processes and project participants. We’ve tried to fix it with shared file repositories, shared BIM models, and APIs that enable software data exchange. Despite new AI tools, the issue remains. But there may be a solution. Anthropic released MCP (Model Context Protocol) in…
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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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Non-destructive testing of bridges with muon tomography
The AI-enabled muon tomography non-destructive testing system developed by GScan, National Highways and AtkinsRéalis won the Product Innovation of the Year category, sponsored by Digital Construction North, at the Digital Construction Awards 2025. The GScan team collect their trophy from Justin Stanton of DC+ (far left), Sally Phillips (second right) and Calum Kelly-Campbell (far right)…
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‘Not just bridges’: STEM programme inspires the next generation
Since 2009, the Big Bang programme has been on a mission to make STEM subjects more attractive to students. It is estimated that the ongoing shortage of STEM skills is costing the UK economy £1.5bn a year through expenses incurred in recruitment, temporary staffing, training and inflated salaries. This is not only damaging to the…