Bearing the load: Congleton link road bridges04/09/2020 Highways reports on the £90m Congleton link road and the bridge structures that make it so special. |
Heatwave causes full closure of Hammersmith Bridge18/08/2020 Hammersmith Bridge in West London is now closed to pedestrians, cyclists and river traffic after engineers discovered ‘a sudden deterioration in key parts of the suspension structure’. |
TfL to close key Thames crossing for short-term fix04/08/2020 London’s Vauxhall Bridge will be closed to general traffic from the weekend for what Transport for London described as ‘critical maintenance’, but no date has been set for ‘top priority’ major renewals that were postponed due to a lack of cash. |
200 years young: Union Chain Bridge gets a refurb22/07/2020 Leading engineering specialist Spencer Group is set to begin work next month to refurbish and rebuild one of the world’s oldest suspension bridges. |
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Highways England joins up £3.6m junction bridge works18/06/2020 Highways England is to close part of a key Yorkshire interchange at the centre of the M1 and M62 network later this month after bringing forward essential maintenance work. |
Council sticks to social distancing as it bridges the gap17/06/2020 Durham County Council has begun work on a £2.5m scheme to demolish and replace a road bridge near Bishop Auckland. |
New bridge arrives in Cambridge under police escort13/05/2020 Tarmac and SH Structures have achieved a major milestone on a transformational project in Cambridge with the delivery of the new Abbey Chesterton Bridge. |
Council chiefs warn of ‘chronic need’ for bridge repair funding03/03/2020 Local authority leaders have said there is a ‘chronic need’ for investment in local roads in response to a report on the number of substandard road bridges in Great Britain. |
New bridge aims to remove business bottleneck16/01/2020 Construction of a new road bridge in Hertfordshire costing over £10m started this week. |
Protecting bridges in extreme climates18/10/2019 Both concrete and steel bridges are susceptible to corrosion from water and waterborne contaminants making waterproofing crucial. Jason Armstrong, product marketing manager for liquid waterproofing EMEA at GCP Applied Technologies outlines some of the key points to consider. |
Balfour Beatty fined over worker's death on bridge project27/02/2019 Balfour Beatty Group has been fined £600,000 after a worker was fatally injured on a construction site in Scotland. |
Arch enemy of M6 upgrade to bite the dust21/02/2019 Highways England will close the M6 for around 18 hours next month to take down an arch bridge standing in the way of an all lane running scheme. |
DfT reasserts overspend 'orthodoxy' after Orwell debacle24/01/2019 The Department for Transport (DfT) has called on Suffolk County Council to explain why costs on a bridge project across the River Orwell ballooned so much that the scheme collapsed. |
Sunk costs: Suffolk writes off £8.3m as it halts bridges project23/01/2019 Suffolk County Council is set to scrap plans to build three bridges on the River Orwell in Ipswich, despite having already spent £8.3m in development costs. |
London's Illuminated River project to be 'longest public art commission in the world'14/01/2019 FM Conway has secured the first phase of the Illuminated River project, which once completed will span 4.5 nautical miles of the River Thames and be the longest public art commission in the world. |
Comment: Cheques and balances – why we need proper funding for bridge inspections07/01/2019 Following the RAC Foundation and ADEPT's annual bridge maintenance survey, Kevin Dentith, chair of the ADEPT Bridges Group, discusses the importance of bridge management and how local authorities can use capital funding for key high-level inspections. |
Bridge maintenance backlog hits almost £7bn07/01/2019 The one-off cost of clearing the total maintenance backlog for council-managed road bridges in Great Britain has hit £6.7bn, according to the annual RAC Foundation and ADEPT survey. |
Research finds historic eco alternative for bridge maintenance10/12/2018 New research has found that a natural oil used for hundreds of years by blacksmiths to protect swords and other metalwork could be used to replace toxic paints in maintaining historic metal bridges. |
Southampton braces for disruption as £19m bridge works close M2727/09/2018 Highways England will close the M27 in both directions between two major intersections this weekend as it replaces the Romsey Road Bridge. |
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