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Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge is a Grade I listed combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, built between 1886 and 1894, designed by Horace Jones and engineered by John Wolfe Barry with the help of Henry Marc Brunel.

The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and is one of five London bridges owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust founded in 1282.

The bridge was opened by Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra, Princess of Wales in 1894.

Client:

on behalf BAM Nuttel

Architect:

City of London

Budget:

£100,000

Project brief:

This award winning project was completed in 12 weeks at the end of 2016 whilst the bridge was temporarily closed. As part of a major bridge refurbishment programme over 4000m² of mastic asphalt footways, piers and approaches were replaced using hot charge technology supplied by IKO PLC, all materials hand laid using traditional techniques by full trained mastic asphalt spreaders.

Significant operations in the schedule of work completed by Infallible Systems included:

Replacement of worn expansion joints
Resurfacing of fixed roads and walkways
Waterproofing of approach viaducts