Tuesday 01 Apr 2014 @ 13:05
Technology Strategy Board
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Success story - Inside out engineering
The world's bridges have a nasty disease:
they are rotting from the inside out because the steel used in their reinforced
concrete is rusting away.
This means 25,000 UK bridges need replacing or
strengthening - and the situation is the same across the
world.
We would never have managed the whole project by ourselves - Abhey Gupta, FlexiArch Project Manager at Macrete
Northern Irish company, Macrete, has the answer to this destructive problem and has just worked its magic on a bridge in Tameside, Ashton Under Lyne, Manchester, which dates from 1935 and was in danger of collapse.
‘It has just been completely reinforced and
refurbished without any dismantling - using Macrete's patented FlexiArch
technology.
‘We would never have managed the whole project by
ourselves,' said Abhey Gupta, Flexiarch Project Manager at
Macrete.
We designed, built and installed everything ourselves – with help from the Technology Strategy Board – otherwise the project would still have been on the drawing board - Abhey Gupta
‘We designed,
built and installed everything ourselves – with help from the Technology
Strategy Board – otherwise the project would still have been on the
drawing board.
They made it all possible with a KTP grant of £83,498 which we received in 2009, and have only just now finished the project - Abhey Gupta
‘They made it all
possible with a Knowledge Transfer Partnership
(KTP) grant of £83,498
which we received in 2009, and have only just now finished the project,
‘added Abhey.
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