Notjust Structurally News Today

Archaeology on the surface of the island. the elegance of this solution is it is anchored into the rock on either side below the sensitive archaeology, very clever. the materials we used were important notjust structurally, but also how it will tie into the landscape, the situation. for the bridge deck we have used mined slate, mined from the quarryjust two miles away. 40,000 hand—split and hand—cut slates have been laid on edge like after eight mints. one word that encapsulates the building...

A queue of wheelchair users from the local village queue up to be the first person to cross the bridge and onto the island — something that they might not have done for many, many years. in my mind, this was a textbook example of how you should design a major piece of engineering in a really sensitive heritage or archaeological site. you could look at all sorts of designs for bridges that would actually have to go through the archaeology on the surface of the island. the elegance of this solut...

Because they had bad knees, they use wheelchairs — whatever it was. now we have essentially step—free access right from the car park all the way through onto the site, and it was so satisfying on the opening day to see literally a queue of wheelchair users from the local village queue up to be the first person to cross the bridge and onto the island — something that they might not have done for many, many years. in my mind, this was a textbook example of how you should design a major piece...

Through the archaeology on the surface of the island. the elegance of this solution was that its anchored into the rock on either side below the sensitive archaeology. very, very clever. the materials that were used were important notjust structurally, but also how it tied into the landscape, its situation. for the bridge deck, we used delabor slate, which is mined from the quarry just two miles away. 40,000 hand—split and hand—cut slates have all laid on edge, like after eight mints. one wo...

A queue of wheelchair users from the local village queueing up to be the first person to cross the bridge and onto the island, something that they might not have done for many years. in my mind, this was a textbook example of how you should design a major piece of engineering in a really sensitive heritage site. we can look at lots of designs for bridges that would actually have to go through the archaeology on the surface of the island. the elegance of this solution is it is anchored into the r...