{"id":10451,"date":"2007-06-01T16:44:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T16:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=10451"},"modified":"2012-09-20T16:46:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T16:46:23","slug":"vital-link-on-river-lea-walkway-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/vital-link-on-river-lea-walkway-opened\/","title":{"rendered":"Vital link on River Lea walkway opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Allerton-Mossops-Creek-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10452\" title=\"Allerton-Mossops-Creek-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Allerton-Mossops-Creek-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Allerton-Mossops-Creek-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Allerton-Mossops-Creek-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linking two previously unconnected parts of the 1.2km-long River Lea walkway in Enfield, north London, the Mossops Creek footbridge was officially opened in May.<\/p>\n<p>The 24m-long structure was fabricated and erected by Allerton Engineering for the London Development Agency. It will help\u00a0 development of a nearby industrial area opened for the relocation of small businesses from the 2012 Olympic Games site.<\/p>\n<p>Allerton Engineering Director, John Riddle, said: \u201cThe span was fabricated as one piece, but the arch is formed by two separate sections and these were both delivered to site in 11m-long lengths &#8211; four in total.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The entire erection of the bridge took three days and involved Allerton first lifting the main span into place with the aid of some temporary trestles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trestles acted as mock foundations while we erected the arch sections, which have a maximum height of 6m,\u201d explained Mr Riddle.<\/p>\n<p>The span is supported by a series of stainless steel Macalloy hangers, while the arch has five cross members connecting its two parts. The two arches also lean towards each other by 15-degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the bridge\u2019s vivid colouring, Mr Riddle said the client specified the hue in order to contrast with the surrounding buildings, which are predominantly grey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linking two previously unconnected parts of the 1.2km-long River Lea walkway in Enfield, north London, the Mossops Creek footbridge was officially opened in May. The 24m-long structure was fabricated and erected by Allerton Engineering for the London Development Agency. It will help\u00a0 development of a nearby industrial area opened for the relocation of small businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1129,338,625],"class_list":["post-10451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-allerton-engineering","tag-enfield","tag-footbridge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Allerton-Mossops-Creek-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-2Iz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10455,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10451\/revisions\/10455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}