Tag: bridge climbing

Roadbuilding
PHOTOS: Engineers suspended on ropes inspect bridges
Last year, Better Roads featured a story about engineers who inspect bridges by climbing the structures and using ropes to rappel down and access critical areas. The article, titled “Bridge Climbing,” detailed how climb-trained engineers from the Army Corps of Engineers (COE) and the Office of Structure Maintenance and Investigations at the California Department of […]
July 31, 2013
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Roadbuilding
Better Bridges
Engineers on ropes doing specialized structural inspections.
May 5, 2012
In some situations, climbing is the only effective means to gain access to certain bridge elements.
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