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Architectural Prints – An Engineer’s Idea of Art

October 11, 2021
by Nick Rodda
6 min read

Do you consider engineering drawings as art?

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Service Life Design – designing bridges to last a century or more

September 10, 2021
by Nick Rodda
8 min read

Do you think Baptiste Androuet du Cerceau and Guillaume Marchand used service life principles while designing Pont Neuf?

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Vertical Lift Bridges – Raising the Roof on Bridge Design

August 9, 2021
by Nick Rodda
10 min read

The king of the movable bridges - the vertical lift really does raise the roof on bridge design.

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Swing Bridges – Long before the ‘swinging’ 1860’s

July 12, 2021
by Nick Rodda
10 min read
2 Comments

In this edition of The Bridge Guy we’ll be examining the swing bridge type, one of the three most common modern movable bridge types.

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Bascule Bridges – ‘Rocking’ the World Since 1894

June 3, 2021
by Nick Rodda
11 min read
3 Comments

Evolving from the medieval drawbridge, the modern bascule bridge is an engineering marvel.

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Movable Bridges and why we need them…

May 7, 2021
by Nick Rodda
9 min read

Of the 617,000 bridge in the United States, only around 3,000 have a movable span. Why so few?

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Common Retaining Wall Types

April 2, 2021
by Nick Rodda
12 min read

As the old adage goes, use the right tool for the right job. The same goes for retaining walls.

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Retaining walls – because a bridge has to have a sidekick

February 16, 2021
by Nick Rodda
12 min read

Often marginalized, many bridges just wouldn't exist without them. Retaining walls - the best sidekick a bridge could hope to have.

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Covered Bridges – For the Romantic at Heart

January 25, 2021
by Nick Rodda
8 min read

Covered bridge's scarcity, their novelty and yes their impracticality in the modern world, are what give them their romantic appeal. Memories of a simpler time to those who knew them.

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Update – Bjørnafjorden Crossing Design Progresses

January 3, 2021
by Nick Rodda
3 min read

Happy New Year everyone!  Today marks the first birthday of TheBridgeGuy and I’ve enjoyed bringing you interesting stories from the world of Bridge Engineering over this last year.  2021 promises to be just as interesting and...

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