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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders

Date 2007

Event ID 602890

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/602890

Bell’s Footbridge is a steel stay swing bridge that was built for the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. Overall length 127m with cantilever spans of 44m which can rotate to accommodate a 35m wide navigational channel. The consulting engineers were Crouch & Hogg, design concept Alasdair Wallace. The contractors were Lilley Construction for the civil and structural work and Barback & Primrose for the mechanical and electrical engineering.

R Paxton and J Shipway 2007

Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.

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