ASSEM-BRIDGE
Steel production accounts for 11%of global annual embodied carbon, requiring enormous amounts of heat and energy to produce. Our engineers have developed the Stockmatcher tool, which allows us to specify steel sections from disassembled buildings– saving nearly 90% of the carbon in the process, whilst not increasing the financial cost.
The proposed design for Assembridge is a process that uses only the most commonly found steel sections at stockists of reclaimed steel. The result is a steel framed bridge with an astonishingly small carbon footprint – that can be readily dismantled and reused again in the future - achieving a truly circular economy.
The proposal is therefore both a system and a process to achieve a very low carbon structure that can be applied to any site and any similar brief. The design has wider applications and can be used for a multitude of spans, applicable to many other highways / watercourse / railway bridging situations. The proposed structure for this site is composed of a bow truss fabricated from 100% reclaimed steel and developed in modelling software to provide the most efficient structural solution defined to thespecific site.
Connecting both Verges
The Ribbon
The deck is conceived as a ‘ribbon’ separate to the structure formed of timber and cut sections of the same recycled steel The deck is designed as a pre-fabricated module or ‘kit of parts’ that can be scaled on a repeating pattern to suit any projects of varying scale. The intention of the Assem-Bridge is not to provide a conclusion to one site but to offer a process that can be delivered throughout the UK and beyond by using existing Stockmatcher software to build
