Success story - Inside out engineering
1 Apr 2014 01:42 PM
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