A round-up of the most impressive construction pictures from the past month.
New ‘floor’ for Sunderland’s footbridge
VolkerStevin has laid the last of 91 deck planks of the New Wear Footbridge in Sunderland. They were installed using a bespoke trolley system, with each of the 10m-wide planks lifted by crane from the southern riverside park onto the deck trolley, which positioned them before returning for the next one.
Once in place, each plank was ‘stitched’ to its neighbour using in-situ concrete.
Underground concrete testing
Geoscience experts from RSK used specialist rope access skills and inflatable boats to extract concrete samples from inside Sheffield’s Megatron culvert – a concrete tunnel beneath the city that carries the River Sheaf.
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