Engineers could be missing out on vital knowledge as a result of the lack of an investigation body to carry out forensic analysis of road bridge collapses in the UK.
The gap in the UK’s regulatory line-up was raised by independent bridge consultant Richard Fish during an evening lecture hosted by the Institution of Structural Engineers last week but the need for such a body has been supported by other leaders in the bridges sector.
“Every bridge collapse needs a forensic investigation to understand the causes and then we need to get that knowledge shared,” said Fish, but he believes that type of investigation is not always undertaken. He pointed to the 2016 collapse of Eastham Bridge in Tenbury Wells, which was owned by a local authority, and he said that “we still don’t have a full picture of what went wrong”.
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Hanging plants smother the walls of a new office block proposed for Salford, giving it the look of something from an abandoned post-Covid city, reclaimed by nature. The ivy-covered tower, designed by Make Architects, has been trumpeted as “fossil-fuel free”, set to run on 100% renewable energy and reach net zero operational carbon, with tenants enjoying the “biophilic” benefits of dangling foliage. But not everyone is convinced.
“It’s strange to see something described as ‘fossil-fuel free’ when it is made of concrete, steel and glass,” says Joe Giddings, coordinator of the Architects Climate Action Network (Acan) campaign group. “The production of these materials entails burning a huge amount of fossil fuel.