Sector Snapshot: Creating Connections
Bridges, both big and small, are visually striking pieces of infrastructure. Building bridges can be challenging, with a range of equipment and techniques used to bring them to fruition.
From Roman aqueducts to the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge, and San Francisco's Golden Gate, bridges have been iconic engineering achievements.
- Tower cranes
- Mobile cranes
- Crawler cranes
- Strand-jacks
- SPMTs
Bridges have, from earliest times, counted among some of the most iconic and spectacular engineering achievements of mankind – as well as the most useful.
Today's bridge-building spans from mega-projects to small intimate foot- or cycle-crossings, with varied lifting machines helping to build them.
Author's summary: Bridges are iconic engineering achievements.
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