Bridge lift ensures road improvement

A significant new steel bridge was lifted into place at the B1106 junction as part of the Highways Agency’s £105M A11 dualling and improvement scheme near Thetford, Norfolk.

The bridge, fabricated, supplied and erected by Mabey Bridge, working on behalf of main contractor Balfour Beatty is constructed from two braced pairs of steel beams, each weighing 77t with a span of 37.5m.

Forming part of the construction of the new grade-separated junction, the bridge will carry the local road (B1106) over the new Elveden Bypass.