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The skill and expertise of Darlington UK based Cleveland Bridge
has been instrumental in gaining prestigious awards and recognition
for a unique engineering project in the South West of England.
The Tamar Bridge, the main link between Devon and Cornwall, was
the first suspension bridge anywhere in the world to be strengthened
& widened whilst open to ‘live’ traffic. Cleveland
Bridge (built the original bridge in the late 1950’s) was
main contractor on the (GBP) £34m project and worked in
a partnership set-up known as ‘The Tamar Bridge
Project Team’ with the two owning authorities (Plymouth
City Council & Cornwall County Council) and the designer (Hyder
Consulting.) The forty-year-old, three lane bridge was transformed
during a 34 month ground breaking project into a five lane crossing
with two cantilevered lanes and a state-of-the-art lightweight
orthotropic steel deck.
News that the Project has won the prestigious national ‘Civil
Engineering Award’, the Institution of Civil Engineers
‘Historic Structures Award’ and was
a finalist in the Prime Minister’s ‘Better
Public Building Award’ has delighted both management
and workers at Cleveland. Chief Operating Officer, Derek Pattle,
said:
“Cleveland’s long experience of building bridges
and in fabricating and erecting complex steel structures meant
that we were able to contribute a wealth of knowledge and experience
to an extremely challenging project. The fact that the work has
been recognised with a prestigious award from within the industry
is a tribute to all parties involved in its successful completion.”
The company currently has well in excess of (GBP) £200m
of work in hand and still more imminent. On-going projects include
a (GBP) £60m contract to supply and erect steelwork for
the new Wembley Stadium, a (EURO) €34m joint venture at Boyne
in Ireland to build the country’s largest cable stay bridge,
a (GBP) £65m contract to refurbish Tinsley Viaduct at Sheffield,
a (GBP) £18m contract to supply and fabricate 17,000 tonnes
of steelwork for the new Rion Antirion Bridge in Greece, and a
(US) $187m joint venture suspension bridge at Carquinez near San
Francisco. Contracts in the Middle and Far East include construction
of the Sheikh Khalifa Bridge in Bahrain and fabrication of two
400m high transmission towers across the Yangtze in China –
both (GBP) £multi-million projects.
Cleveland Bridge was recently named as one of the UK’s top
100 contractors in a leading construction industry publication.
A global leader in technology
based engineering, construction and steel fabrication, Cleveland
has been Darlington based since 1877. The company is responsible
for some of the world's most famous landmark structures including:
Victoria Falls Bridge, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Canary Wharf Office
Tower, Humber Bridge, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building, Tsing
Ma and Jiangyin Suspension Bridges in China to name but a few.
For further information please contact: Shirley
Smale (Public Relations)
Tel: +44 (0) 1752 848627
Fax: +44 (0) 1752 848623
Mobile: 0771 039 7761
Email: shirley.smale@clevelandbridge.com
Web: www.clevelandbridge.com
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