Combined solution: the structures of the A120 Little Hadham bypass and flood alleviation scheme
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
C. Jackson
(Arup, Solihull, UK)
G. Ledsham-James (Arup, Solihull, UK) F. Aparicio-Baneres (Arup, Solihull, UK) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Structural Engineering for Future Societal Needs, Ghent, Belgium, 22-24 September 2021 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Ghent 2021 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1296-1303 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/ghent.2021.1296 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The village of Little Hadham in the UK has suffered from heavy traffic, air pollution and flooding over many years. The village also creates a major bottleneck to traffic flows on the main A120 road through the region, a major east west route crucial for the prosperity of the East of England. These multiple issues are being resolved though the construction of a combined bypass and flood alleviation scheme. By combining the resources and requirements of the highway and environmental authorities the scheme provides a sustainable and cost-effective solution to these issues with highway embankments and bridges also acting as flood alleviation dams and spillway structures. These combined benefits ensured the commercial viability of the scheme. This paper gives an overview of the structures and design challenges faced and how the requirements of the two functions have been combined into a single solution that ensures the future of Little Hadham and promotes growth in the region as a whole. |
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| Keywords: |
bridge engineering highways Flood Alleviation
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| Copyright: | © 2021 International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) | ||||
| License: | This creative work is copyrighted material and may not be used without explicit approval by the author and/or copyright owner. |
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