{"id":30046,"date":"2020-02-12T17:31:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=30046"},"modified":"2020-02-12T17:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T17:31:53","slug":"east-london-bridge-installed-on-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/east-london-bridge-installed-on-christmas-day\/","title":{"rendered":"East London bridge installed on Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Civil engineering contractor Graham successfully installed a new pedestrian and cycle bridge<\/a> in east London during the early hours of Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

The 66m-long, 7.2m-wide and 350t steel Carpenters Land Bridge was installed as a key part of the infrastructure for East Bank, the new \u00a31.1 billion culture and education district being created on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.<\/p>\n

The new bridge will link museums, theatres<\/a>, music studios and UAL\u2019s London College of Fashion with the new business district at International Quarter London.<\/p>\n

While Father Christmas was busy delivering presents, Graham\u2019s construction team started their bridge installation<\/a> work, which was completed in time for the Queen\u2019s speech at 3pm.<\/p>\n

Taking advantage of the rail network shutdown<\/a> to minimise disruption, the bridge was installed across three Network Rail lines, two DLR lines and Carpenters Road.<\/p>\n

Leo Martin Managing Director of Graham\u2019s Civil Engineering Division said: \u201cOur teams worked incredibly hard on this new link for East Bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile many people were getting an early night in anticipation of enjoying the festivities during Christmas Day, our dedicated teams worked through the night to get the bridge in place \u2013 minimising disruption<\/a> to the people who will reap the benefits once the work is complete.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team put the bridge in place using a self-propelled modular transporter<\/a> rather than a more traditional crane typically used on similar projects. This provided greater certainty to the installation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steelwork contractor for the project was Briton Fabricators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Civil engineering contractor Graham successfully installed a new pedestrian and cycle bridge in east London during the early hours of Christmas Day. The 66m-long, 7.2m-wide and 350t steel Carpenters Land Bridge was installed as a key part of the infrastructure for East Bank, the new \u00a31.1 billion culture and education district being created on Queen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[769,624,4214,3930,2267,1741,481,2333,2544,3673],"class_list":["post-30046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bridge-launch","tag-briton-fabricators","tag-christmas","tag-cycle-bridge","tag-east-london","tag-graham-construction","tag-olympic-park","tag-pedestrian-bridge","tag-railway","tag-self-propelled-mobile-transporters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/nCarpentersBridge0220.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-7OC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30046","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30047,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30046\/revisions\/30047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}