Thanks bud.
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That is the definition of a freak accident. God rest them
There’s a programme about the building of the new Barrow bridge on BBC 4 now.
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Whats the name of it? Might watch it on the player tomorrow
Sorry, it’s on Virgin Media Four, not BBC Four, the narrator is English though… Somebody else flicked the channel and landed on it.
It’s called “Building Giants”.
This is it here except it has an American narrator instead of the English one currently on the telly.
It’s the longest some class of a niche bridge in Europe/the World
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Longest fully suspended bridge I think?
Edit, not fully suspended but longest bridge of its type in the world. Just not sure what it’s type is
It’s the longest bridge in Ireland!
Limerick has a tunnel so JP McManus will have to fund one to name after Kyle Hayes.
The longest concrete-only extradosed box-girder bridge spans in the world.
At least it was at one stage… It’s hard to find an up-to-date league table on the topic. We’d need the Milford GAA website of bridges to be sure.
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Do we know how many concrete only extradosed box-girder bridges there are in the world??
The number of people taking city breaks in New Ross has increased by 8% since the construction of the bridge.
You can be almost certain that we have an expert in the field of concrete-only extradosed box-girder bridges on this very forum, who will reveal themselves shortly and provide us with this information.
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Concrete engineer Colin Heffernan of Kilmacow Concrete gave a lovely little crash course in the requirements of the concrete used on the bridge in that programme tonight. You need a wet concrete for such a bridge as there’s a lot of pouring involved and the concrete has to flow. The aggregate used was made up of 14mm stones, 10mm stones and sand. There was a sort of stimp meter test done on the concrete using an instrument somewhat like a traffic cone and that test indicated that the batch of concrete we saw was fit for use on the bridge.
Small blocks of concrete which had been cured for 28 days were tested in some sort of a machine until they exploded to test how much force could be exerted on them. This also demonstrated that the concrete being used was up top the job.
A nice feature of the programme was when Scottish engineer Craig Sneddon was interviewed and subtitles had tae be used. I’d say Craig was the sort who wouldn’t have had any fears at all in any of the rougher pubs in New Ross.
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Not a city
It’s just two letters away from being New York