The New Pooley Bridge – Reconnecting a Community
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Bibliographic Details
Author(s): |
Héctor Beade-Pereda
(Knight Architects, London, UK)
Laura Langridge (Knight Architects, London, 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): | 235-242 | ||||
Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
DOI: | 10.2749/manchester.2024.0235 | ||||
Abstract: |
The new stainless steel arch bridge for Pooley Bridge replaces a 250-year-old historic structure in a UNESCO World Heritage Site lost to flooding in 2015. The designers balanced key project constraints and community desires through the design process including an extensive public stakeholder engagement process. Resilience, durability, transparency in the landscape and speed of construction were all raised as critical, and the resulting design balances these aspects with an efficient and novel design that achieves a good balance of carbon cost to value. |
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Keywords: |
stainless steel arch resilience community engagement replacement bridge design for climate change
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