BRIDGES Ӏ SECTOR SPOTLIGHT
BUILDING BRIDGES
Cranes Today looks at a selection of impressive bridge projects, revealing the wide range of techniques and equipment used to build them.
Tower cranes, fast erectors, lattice boom crawlers, telecrawlers, SPMTs, winches, jacks, RoRo ramps, shear legs and barges – in the following six case studies you’ll see all this equipment, and more,
being utilised for the purpose of building various bridges around the world. Despite the wide range of techniques and equipment employed, however, there are common threads
underpinning this essential area of infrastructure construction: namely the importance of innovative thinking, detailed planning, and maintaining a flexible approach…
Who: Sarens / Smulders. What: Transport and installation of two bridge sections of the Clyde Waterfront and Renfrew Riverside swing bridge. Where: Glasgow, UK.
Sarens, contracted by international construction company Smulders, played a crucial role in the transport and installation of two sections of a bridge over the river Clyde, Scotland.
One bridge section was constructed
by Hollandia Infra in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The other was constructed by Smulders in Flushing, Netherlands. Both bridge sections had to be
transported and installed in Glasgow, the UK. To undertake this crucial project,
Sarens studied the site conditions in Rotterdam, Flushing, and Glasgow and
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