Pre Stressed Concrete — Heritage and History

Celebrating Edinburgh’s post-war architecture

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May 21, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

The Forth Road Bridge, the Scottish Widows Head Office Building and the Royal Botanic Gardens Greenhouse are all to be featured in a new book … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, News in brief Tagged With: Basil Spence, Careful Construction, Deborah Mays, Edinburgh City Council, Glasswork, High Rise Buildings, Historic Scotland, Kew Garden, Palm House, Pre Stressed Concrete, Princes Street, Prolific Designers, Rectangular Floor Plan, Rich Legacy, Road Bridge, Royal Botanic Gardens, Salisbury Crags, Scottish City, Scottish Widows, Stationery Office, Suspension Bridge, War Heritage

Greta Bridge, Keswick

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September 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Carrying the busy A66 between the M6 and Keswick is what is possibly the largest concrete span bridge in Cumbria, the Greta Bridge. Four lanes of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Transport Tagged With: A66, Abutment, Aesthetic Qualities, Brid, Bridg, Bridge Design, Building Material, Concrete Span, Concrete Structures, Finite Element Analysis, Footpath, lake district, Longest Bridges, Main Contractor, Mathematical Formulae, Mr Donaldson, New Civil Engineer, Peter Donaldson, Pre Stressed Concrete, Right Angles, River Greta, S Type, Soffit, Span Bridge, Structural Engineers

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