Farcet Bridge
Improvement to Farcet Bridge over the River Nene in Cambridgeshire are completed. Cambridgeshire County Council commissioned RHINOCEROS to repair and replace damaged brickwork and repair concrete around the main beams, and repoint over 1km of the Staffordshire blue brickwork. The bridge has remained open during works.
The bridge carries heavy agricultural traffic as well as local commuters: wear and tear had forced strengthening works and rebuilding brickwork in the retaining walls. Cambridgeshire County Council brought RHINOCEROS in to refurbish the bridge, including over 1km of repointing.
Steel beams supporting the road were found to be suffering from corrosion, with cracks in 2 out of 5.These were repaired by grinding out and re-welding before re-concreting.
Before spray concreting the repaired beams, they were pre-shuttered by RHINOCEROS once material breakout, shotblasting and priming were complete. Retaining walls on the river approaches to the bridge were repaired by replacing large sections of crumbling brick with new Staffordshire Blue engineering bricks, and expansion joints were cut in. Repointing included both under-bridge areas and external-facing walls.
