The Garden Bridge has been pulled by the Garden Bridge Trust, putting the final nail in the coffin for the troubled project.
The trust said it would be winding up the project after mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced in April that he would not provide a guarantee for maintenance costs…
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has admitted that £50M of public funds has already been spent on the Garden Bridge with almost no prospect of recovering it.
Talking on his “Speak to Sadiq” Q&A slot on LBC today (Tuesday), Khan slammed his predecessor Boris Johnson as he said the situation “does beggar belief”.…
A new £1.4M pedestrian bridge linking Nottingham’s tram system to Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) is to open tomorrow.
The 90m long bridge was constructed through a design and build contract awarded to Interserve, which then appointed Capita as structural engineers and IDP as architects. The structure stands 8m above ground. Several thousand passengers…
Test work to verify concrete at the centre of an investigation into alleged falsification of original strength tests on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao mega-bridge will be completed by October.
In May this year, Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) arrested two senior executives and 19 staff members from a contractor working…
The Scottish Parliament’s inquiry into the closure of the Forth Road Bridge in December 2015 following the discovery of a fractured truss-end link concluded that, “the failure had been unforeseen and unforeseeable”.
Published in March 2016, the findings also indicated that the decision taken to monitor the structure’s behaviour using instrumentation…
The bridge carrying the M4 over the River Usk in Newport, South Wales is on first sight unremarkable, but the same cannot be said about work being carried out to repair it.
The bridge is a 143m long five span reinforced concrete structure. Built in the 1960s, its looks are typical…
Transport for London (TfL) is to spend £37M overhauling Lambeth and Waterloo bridges and the surrounding junctions to make them safer for cyclists and pedestrians.
The tansport body announced the plans as part of a consultation for schemes to improve conditions around the busy junctions. The estimated cost for the Waterloo scheme…
At around five per day, bridge strikes are so common that they rarely make national news. When a lorry crashed into a pedestrian bridge over the M20 last year, the resulting media attention was an exception to the rule.
But despite the severity of the crash, which caused a partial collapse…
Preparations are underway to install the cable stays on Sunderland’s £117.6M New Wear Crossing.
The team from FVB Joint Venture – formed from Farrans Construction and Victor Buyck Steel Construction – are preparing to install the bridge’s 28 cable stays which will support the bridge deck. They will be installed over…
An English-style landscape garden in northern Germany is an improbable place to find surviving early examples of iron truss bridges.
Ice portraits chrimes cropped Mike Chrimes Yet the Georgengarten in Hanover features two lenticular truss bridges designed by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves (1788-1864). Laves was the most significant architect,…
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