Bracklinn Falls Footbridge: efficient modular design
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
David Knight
(Cake Engineering, London, UK)
Keith Brownlie (BEAM Architects, Dorset, UK) James Marks (BEAM Architects, Dorset, UK) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Construction’s Role for a World in Emergency, Manchester, United Kingdom, 10-14 April 2024 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Manchester 2024 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 443-450 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/manchester.2024.0443 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The construction and access constraints of the Bracklinn Falls site drove the development of a new modular system and governed the structural and aesthetic design for the new footbridge. The resulting structure consists of perforated panels, formed from single sheets of weathering steel folded into a z-shape. These panels were bolted to cross frames and assembled to create a half through beam that spans 21.4m. The structure was assembled bay-by-bay and push launched along a set of temporary rails, before being jacked onto the permanent bearings. By using a folding process, the modular system minimised welding and hence fabrication time and energy use. This paper looks at how the multiple constraints of a particular project enabled the design team to deliver a footbridge with an exemplary embodied carbon rating [1] as well as achieving economic, robustness, durability and aesthetic goals. |
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| Keywords: |
design sustainability fabrication collaboration
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