Case Study The Bronx – Whitestone Bridge was completed in 1939, following a similar design concept to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Following the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge additional steel trusses were added to reduce the risk of resonance of the bridge...
Case Study Gurit engineered a composite footbridge span for installation in Lisbon for the 1998 EXPO. Two of the bridges span across roads, and the third crossed a railway line. Design was carried out to Portuguese codes, including seismic load cases. The bridge spans...
Case Study As reported in Advantage magazine, Spring 2005, Gurit was awarded a contract from Isle of Wight based company Hoverworks for the structural design and build of a number of propeller ducts for their new BHT 130 hovercraft. The Canadian coast guard currently...
Case Study The new Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit Scheme is the largest public transport project in Malaysia. The first branch of this line is scheduled for completion in 2017 with an initial fleet of state of the art automated trains from Siemens. Designed for both...
Case Study During 2008, the city of London announced the introduction of a new generation of double-decker buses for London (NBfL). The back then more fuel-efficient bus would draw on styling cues from the iconic star of London transport, the 1960’s built Routemaster....
