Image: Jill Tate
Numerous challenges were overcome during the design stage for the Chiswick Park Footbridge – a new three-span arched structure that connects a business park with Chiswick Park Underground Station.
Commendation: Chiswick Park Footbridge
Architect: Useful Studio
Structural engineer: Expedition Engineering
Steelwork contractor: Severfield
Main contractor: Lendlease
Client: Blackstone
The designers had to incorporate a dominant 45m-long span over Network Rail Overground lines with the necessary constraints, as well as allowing for a restricted landing site at one end that includes a 4.5m drop in level. A minimum road height clearance for double-decker buses had to be included in the central span. Added to the above, the bridge had to curve along its entire length.
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