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The New Wear Crossing will be the first bridge to be built over the River Wear in Sunderland, UK, for more than 40 years
Raising the bridge’s 100m-tall pylon promised to be a stunning visual sight, but also a tricky operation dictated by extremely variable local weather. World Highways went to press just before the operation, but not before the pylon had arrived by barge on January 7.
It had completed a two-day crossing of the often unpredictable North Sea from the Belgian port of Ghent where it was f
The association’s new web portal will share equipment theft information with the UK’s National Construction & Agricultural Theft Team (NCATT) and the Construction and Agricultural Equipment Security & Registration Scheme (CESAR).
Slowly but surely, a 2,500 tonne section of a new bridge deck was eased out from the banks of the River Wear near Sunderland in northern England. It now straddles the water, pointing towards the opposite bank which it will eventually reach after another sliding operation next year likely.
The project to build the New Wear Crossing is now half way through with the first half of the steel deck bridge poised mid-river. Completion of the bridge is expected in the spring of 2018.
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