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BridgeTOOL – Design and Construction of Rural Suspension Footbridges

 BridgeTOOL – Design and Construction of Rural Suspension Footbridges
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Beitrag für IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014, veröffentlicht in , S. 930-937
DOI: 10.2749/222137814814067095
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Arup began working with US-based charity Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) in 2010, with the objective to produce a simple design tool to support the design and construction of rural suspension footbrid...
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Medium: Tagungsbeitrag
Sprache(n): Englisch
Tagung: IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014
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Seite(n): 930-937 Anzahl der Seiten (im PDF): 8
Seite(n): 930-937
Anzahl der Seiten (im PDF): 8
Jahr: 2014
DOI: 10.2749/222137814814067095
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Arup began working with US-based charity Bridges to Prosperity (B2P) in 2010, with the objective to produce a simple design tool to support the design and construction of rural suspension footbridges anywhere in the world. B2P‟s vision is that of a world “where poverty caused by rural isolation no longer exists”. Three years later, Arup have produced the “BridgeTOOL” – a design tool and learning resource that enables the rapid design of suspension footbridges, coupled with documentation to both support the construction process and B2P‟s training programs worldwide.

Part of the process in developing BridgeTOOL has been to try it out in the field. A 50 m pilot suspension bridge in Rwanda was entirely designed using BridgeTOOL. The purpose of this project was to both validate and feed lessons-learnt back into the tool‟s development, and is in itself a success story for the rural community, benefitting thousands of local inhabitants.

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