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Engineering Services for Twin Bridges Over the Wimmera River on Landsborough Elmhurst Road

Project Engineering Services for Twin Bridges Over the Wimmera River on Landsborough Elmhurst Road
Client Ararat Rural City Council
Project Value < $1M
Project Overview The Council of Ararat was replacing two bridges single span or multiple span bridges over the Wimmera River on the Landsborough-Elmhurst Road.

The superstructures of the existing bridges consisted of seven precast concrete U beams on crossheads, and the substructures consisted of an abutment crosshead sitting on concrete piles and piers, with the crosshead supporting the U beams sitting on the top of the pile cap. The overall width of the bridges was 5.32 m, and were around 18m and 36m long.

JJR Involvement JJR developed the documentation for the Design & Construct Tender Brief, and also oversaw development of the bridge design, to ensure that designs were consistent with the SM 1600 standards, to ensure a 100 year asset life-cycle, and to ensure that improvement of the waterway capacity was included in the design parameters to address cases where flooding had over-topped the existing structures.