Latest Bridges News

Trains have made their first crossing over the world’s first heavy rail bridge to use carbon hangers, which traverses the Oder River at the Poland-Germany border. 

Erecting a “mega tent” over a constrained work site above Paddington station has enabled Balfour Beatty to carry out renewal on a 112-year-old bridge in industrial-like conditions, a senior engineer on the project has told NCE.

Engineers from Balfour Beatty Vinci JV (BBV) are using a specialist cantilever process for the first time in the UK to build a 472m long single-track viaduct for High Speed 2 (HS2) in the West Midlands.

Structural repairs to wrought ironwork, grit blasting and repainting, waterproofing of the road deck and resurfacing on the High Level Bridge on Tyneside have been completed by Network Rail’s contractor AmcoGiffen in a £5.2M restoration programme.

Magnetic rope testing (MRT), a technology usually used in the oil and gas sector, was used to find faults in the ropes on the Kingsferry Bridge in Kent.

Taylor Woodrow has detailed its work to use drones for bridge inspections and how it believes the benefits are a “step into the future” of bridge management.

A bridge expert at Network Rail has said the industry must challenge current standards, written and unwritten, for designing, constructing and maintaining bridges.

Murphy is to begin the demolition of a 150-year-old road bridge over the railway in Hackney this weekend, Saturday 20 July, closing the London Overground line for 16 days.

The inaugural NCE Bridges Awards ceremony was held in central London last night, 18 July, to recognise the best work in the sector on new builds, heritage structures, monitoring and much more.

The Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) low-carbon footbridge design contest is looking for innovators to “push the boundaries” of current standards for structures on the UK’s road network.