Fell Beck Bridge Strengthening

• Client: North Yorkshire County Council
• Location: Fell Beck, Harrogate
• Value: £104,000
• Period: September 2022 – November 2022

GENERAL OVERVIEW

Deconstruction and reconstruction of existing bridge to repair extensive damage.

SCOPE DELIVERED

• Existing stone work reclaimed from river bed, cleaned, prepped and reused

• Scaffolding erected both side of bridge for workability with a purpose built scaffold footway installed for safe passage of pedestrians

• Existing bridge surface course planed off and removed from site

• Existing parapet walls (upstream and downstream) fully deconstructed down to springer level, cleaned and stored for reuse

• Existing sub base material excavated to expose the barrels of the bridge, bridge barrels cleaned off extensively and any gaps repointed

• Reused existing stonework to rebuild parapet walls following cleaning and preparation works

• Shuttered and poured C40 concrete over bridge barrels in 500mm layers to create new bridge sub base.

• Excavated and removed existing material at ends of bridge, this was replaced by a no fines concrete mixture to create new bridge abutments

• Installed 1 no. road gully and perforated drainage system to allow water to pass through the bridge structure

• Installed road kerbs with a backfill of ST5 concrete, tarmac to finish and create footway

• Laid base, binder and new hot rolled asphalt (HRA) with coated chippings to create new carriageway

• White lining and road studs to complete the project