{"id":32149,"date":"2021-01-04T13:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=32149"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:12:33","slug":"bridge-adds-to-cambridge-walking-and-cycling-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/bridge-adds-to-cambridge-walking-and-cycling-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge adds to Cambridge walking and cycling trail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Abbey Chesterton Bridge has been lifted into place, completing a significant milestone in the delivery of the Chisholm Trail walking and cycling route in Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bridge<\/a>, which was designed by Skanska and is based upon a Knight Architects concept, spans the River Cam and sits adjacent to a Network Rail line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new structure was lifted into place during one short overnight possession<\/a> at a weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working on behalf of main contractor Tarmac, S H Structures fabricated<\/a> the 140t bridge and delivered it to site in three sections. Once assembled on land adjacent to the bridge\u2019s final installation position, a 1,200t-capacity crane<\/a> was then used to lift the 44m-long \u00d7 6m-wide bridge into its final position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the assembled bridge taking up significant space on site, the remaining confined environment meant the crane and its rigging only just fitted within site limits,\u201d said S H Structures Contracts Director David Perry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe crane\u2019s proximity to the river meant that a piled crane pad had to be provided for the lift and the bridge sits inside the curved concrete abutments with only a theoretical 50mm of clearance each side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once complete, the scheme will allow thousands of people to walk or cycle on a mostly off-road and traffic-free route connecting Cambridge North to Cambridge Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Abbey Chesterton Bridge has been lifted into place, completing a significant milestone in the delivery of the Chisholm Trail walking and cycling route in Cambridge. The bridge, which was designed by Skanska and is based upon a Knight Architects concept, spans the River Cam and sits adjacent to a Network Rail line. The new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32124,"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":[769,403,1137,3930,1286,411,1354,4456],"class_list":["post-32149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bridge-launch","tag-cambridge","tag-crane","tag-cycle-bridge","tag-fabrication","tag-s-h-structures","tag-skanska","tag-tarmac"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/nCamBridge2021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-8mx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149","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=32149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32150,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32149\/revisions\/32150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}