John Rennie and Waterloo Bridge, London, UK Available to Purchase

Among the wide range of civil engineering works undertaken by John Rennie were a number of elegant masonry arch bridges, the finest of which being Waterloo Bridge in London, UK. This paper looks briefly at some of the significant masonry bridges in Rennie’s earlier career, to indicate his experience up to 1809 when he became involved with Waterloo Bridge. It then describes in more detail the design and construction of the bridge, and the constraints and problems that Rennie had to deal with in the process.