...Philippe Van Bogaert; Bernard Espion From 1923 to 1960, a significant number of “Vierendeel” steel railway bridges have been built in Katanga and Belgium. In the town of Mechelen, three railway lines cross the Mechelen-Leuven canal, offering a distinctive illustration of this type of application...

... girder static model. By the 1890s, large metal viaducts constructed applying the Gerber scheme became widely adopted. Subsequently, from around 1930 onwards, the Gerber scheme was extended to reinforced concrete bridges. In Italy, the Gerber scheme was widely applied to reinforced concrete bridges from...

...Jorge Bernabeu-Larena, PhD; José Antonio Martín-Caro, PhD; Patricia Hernández-Lamas, PhD; Álvaro Gil Plana, MSc Madrid’s bridges trace a path through the evolution of construction technologies over the past five centuries. Since Madrid became the capital of Spain in the sixteenth century, bridges...

...Matthias Bartzsch, Dr-Ing; Hajo Heinz, Dipl-Ing; Ronald Stein, Dipl-Ing The railway bridge over the Elbe River in Meissen, Germany, is approximately 100 years old and has had an eventful history. The beginnings of the structure were characterised by vigorous discussions and numerous proposed...

...Pedro Plasencia-Lozano, PhD, ICCP, MU This paper analyses the construction history of the Membrío Bridge over the Salor River in the province of Cáceres, Spain. It is a public construction of unclear origin, which has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. The text collects the known information...

...Utpal K Ghosh, BE, CEng, FIE, MICE, MIStructE Vivekananda Bridge is a major steel bridge over the River Hooghly and is one of the first rail-cum-road bridges in colonial India. It serves as an important link between Calcutta and the rest of India through Bally, impacting passenger commuting...

...Anirudha Das, CEng, MICE; Partha Roy, CEng MICE This paper attempts to cover the planning, design and construction of five bridges in Calcutta, India, reconstructed after World War I and still in operation, constructed across the city’s Circular Canal and Tolly Nullah. These bridges were...

...). A brief background of his career in the context of his work with Telford, leading up to their collaboration on Nantwich Aqueduct, is presented here. bridges conservation history Approaching from the road on either side, Nantwich Aqueduct has an imposing yet elegant presence, alluding...

...Amitabha Ghoshal, FICE Construction of a bridge with a main span of 457 m (1500 ft) and side spans of 99 m (325 ft), across a river that carried fleets of rivercraft on a regular basis and therefore not available to support the construction activity, was a challenging task in the 1940s...

...Amitabha Ghoshal, FICE Howrah Bridge completes its 75 years of service for the populace of the twin Indian cities of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Howrah and is considered as the icon of the city. The imposing and heavily built balanced-cantilever suspension bridge has held the fancy of the city...

... the brickwork and stonework structures affected. It reviews the condition of the structures at the project outset and describes how a bespoke project specification for repairs was developed. The Grade I-listed Stephenson’s Bridge is discussed in detail. (corresponding author: brian.duguid@mottmac.com...

... old and new structures. This paper summarises the structural monitoring work undertaken on the existing brick railway. Other significant works, such as demolition, underpinning and refurbishment of historic metal bridges, are presented and explained. The paper summarises some of the building recording...

...Eberhard Pelke, Dipl.-Ing. Using the example of German bridge construction and its international connections, this paper describes how the successful refurbishment and strengthening of road bridges benefits from a knowledge of construction history. The author focuses on the knowledge about chains...

...Pasquale Ponterosso, BEng, MSc, DIC, PhD, CEng, MICE This paper describes structural interventions carried out on Greatham Bridge, an eighteenth-century stone and wrought-iron road crossing over the River Arun in West Sussex, UK. The scheduled ancient historic monument carries a ‘B’ road used...

... supply, roads, railroads, bridges, tunnels and buildings. (dfriedman@oldstructures.com) 01 01 2019 23 01 2019 ICE Publishing: All rights reserved 2019 bridges buildings, structures & design history The USA as a political entity is less than 250 years old...

...David Wiggins, BSc(Hons), PhD, IEng, MICE; Kiera Mudd, MEng(Hons); Matthew Healey, HNC, ONC Brougham Castle Bridge is a three-span masonry arch highway bridge that has suffered significant scour damage to foundations and substructure with referred damage through the superstructure. This paper...

...Dave Gent, DEng, CEng, FICE; Paul Thomas, MSc, BSc; Max-Xavier Woof, DipHE, EngTech, MICE A major factor in the maintenance of metallic bridge structures involves cleaning and repainting to protect the fabric of the structure from the elements. It is known from experience in the current financial...

...Deborah Lazarus, MA(Cantab), CEng, FICE, FIStructE, FRSA Blackfriars Road Bridge in London, UK, is a Grade II-listed structure dating from 1869 and widened at the start of the twentieth century. In the 1960s, a concrete staircase was constructed linking the east side of the bridge to the riverside...

...Nora Gyetvai, BSc, ME; Linh Truong-Hong, PhD; Debra F Laefer, PhD This paper introduces a workflow to create the geometric documents for conducting the finite-element-based structural assessment of wrought iron bridges using laser scanning data as the input dataset. First, a methodology...

...Pedro Plasencia-Lozano, PhD, ICCP, MU The Roman bridge of Segura, Spain, is a construction of great historic significance, situated at the Spanish/Portuguese border on the Eljas River. Since Roman times, the structure has known different changes in history – five at least. In this paper, the set...