The Maintenance of Silver Jubilee Bridge, UK
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Ray Langley
(Mott MacDonald, Manchester, UK)
John Hehir (Mott MacDonald, Manchester, UK) Ian Towler (Mott MacDonald, Manchester, UK) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Engineering the Past, to Meet the Needs of the Future, Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 June 2018 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Copenhagen 2018 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 267-274 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/copenhagen.2018.267 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The Grade II listed Silver Jubilee Bridge is a two-pinned steel arch bridge with continuous side spans spanning the River Mersey. With a main span of 330 metres, it is the seventh largest steel arch bridge in the world. Since original construction in 1961, Mott MacDonald has been employed on numerous commissions and frameworks on the bridge providing technical and commercial advice to the maintainer, currently Halton Borough Council. This paper presents a case study highlighting challenges associated with maintaining a historical bridge. Maintenance works include painting the arch steelwork, protection and monitoring of the hanger cables, installation of shock transmission units and an innovative cathodic protection system. |
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| Keywords: |
maintenance long-span arch bridge historic structure joint replacement cathodic
protection arch painting cable replacement
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