B2P Rutaka Footbridge – Improving Safety using Innovative Deck Pull Method
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Ian Towler
(Mott MacDonald, Manchester and Southampton, UK)
Ben Mills (Mott MacDonald, Manchester and Southampton, UK) Matthew Lofts (Balfour Beatty, London, UK) Brandon Mills (Mott MacDonald, Manchester and Southampton, UK) William Benson (Balfour Beatty, London, UK) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Engineering the Developing World, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-27 April 2018 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Kuala Lumpur 2018 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 242-249 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/kualalumpur.2018.0242 | ||||
| Abstract: |
In developing nations, rural communities often lack year-round safe access to local markets, farms, schools, health clinics and other critical services. Bridges to Prosperity has developed standard footbridge designs and construction methodologies to successfully construct over 200 footbridges. This paper presents a case study of the 40m long suspended footbridge constructed in the community of Rutaka in Rwanda in 2017. The normal deck construction method required the operatives to spend a significant amount of time working at height. The industry team set themselves a challenge to reduce this. The team successfully developed and trialled a methodology for launching the deck from a platform on the river bank, improving safety and quality control. It is a significant step forward in the development of safety and construction methods for Bridges to Prosperity. |
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| Keywords: |
footbridge innovation Rwanda Bridges to Prosperity suspended span construction deck launch safe system of work safe access
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