ROLE OF EMERGENCY TEMPORARY WORKS
Andun have been involved in designing emergency solutions on structural failures that have endangered safety, the viability of the structure and closed transport arteries.
These often attract widespread media and regulatory attention due to the damage, risks and impact they have had. A quick response is required to make the structure safe and/or operational in the short term whilst a permanent solution is designed and implemented. Projects where Andun have been called in to design solutions include; lift bridge failures, fire damaged structures and sheet pile retaining wall failures.
An example of this is when a steel highway lift bridge was being commissioned when the structure failed.
This resulted in a 400-tonne bridge partially collapsing across the Manchester ship Canal with 200 tonnes of counterweights suspended 18m in the air within the towers. Andun Engineering Consultants attended the site and provided the temporary works design to initially stabilise the structure to allow safe recovery of the bridge.
