C2I 2024 Wild Card winner: AVA Bridge & Lift System
Designed and built by a consortium of innovative UK SMEs using modern manufacturing methods the AVA Bridge & Lift system heralds a new era of railway footbridge design and construction
Category: Wild Card
Project: AVA Bridge & Lift System
Partners: Network Rail, Expedition Engineering, Walker Construction, Hawkins\Brown, McNealy Brown, ARX, Outokumpu
The UK’s ageing rail infrastructure has always presented a range of challenges for engineers, with swathes of its 19th Century tracks, tunnels, and stations requiring constant repair, upgrades, maintenance and modernisation to meet the demands of a modern transport network.
One particular headache - and an issue with which UK rail infrastructure-owner Network Rail has been grappling for some time - is the thousands of small and medium sized stations either without footbridges or with structures that are now nearing the end of their operational lives.
In an effort to address this, the AVA consortium, a group of UK engineering SMEs funded by Innovate UK and Network rail, has developed a novel modular footbridge and lift system that is claimed to be greener, longer lasting, simpler to maintain, more cost-effective and easier to install than existing solutions.
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