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6 Bridging the Cam for enabling works
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Deck installed on weathering steel bridge
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Steelwork on the first UK bridge to use a higher-strength grade of weathering steel has been installed. Engineering consulting group COWI is working with contractor Alun Griffiths on the construction of the 205m-long Carrington Bridge in Worcester, which converts the A4440 from single to dual carriageway. COWI said using the stronger grade of steel has reduced the total material quantity by 15%.
Robot in wind turbine ‘blade walk’
A six-legged robot has undertaken the world’s first ‘blade walk’ by a machine on an offshore wind turbine off the coast of Fife. The inspect-and-repair robot scaled blades at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s 7MW Levenmouth Demonstration turbine. It is being developed under a £1m collaboration project between BladeBUG and ORE Catapult, part-funded by Innovate UK. Construction is underway on the world’s first which aims to remove 4,000 tonnes of Orca, uses fans to suck in air and filter out some 90% for storage underground. The plant will be powered by geothermal energy from ON Power, one of the project’s partners.
Construction materials for the Tideway super sewer project below the Thames in London are being transported down the river by a tug fuelled by low-emission vegetable oil. Tideway said the GPS Vincia vessel, which runs on Green D+ hydrogen-treated vegetable oil, offers a 90%
World’s biggest CO2-sucking plant
large-scale CO2 capture and storage plant in Iceland, CO2 from the atmosphere a year. The plant, called of its CO2, which is turned into carbonate minerals reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
Commercial rewilding looks set to benefit from the new Environment Bill, p40
Snake design for Chinese natural history museum
Shenzhen’s new Natural History Museum in southeast China will be a winding, sinuous form resembling a snake or a river, with a public park on its roof. Adjacent to the Yanzi Lake in the Pingshan district, the 42,000 sq m building has been designed by Copenhagen’s 3XN, multinational B+H and China’s Zhubo Design.
