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/ DARLINGTON NEWS
Cleveland Bridge factory manager Richard
Parker (left) and project manager Michael
Whinn with one of Cleveland Bridge’s
record-breaking 56-metre girders.
Plans are in place to build a new road
crossing over the River Tees. The Roman
Bridge at Piercebridge is perhaps the most
famous ancient crossing in the Tees Valley,
but there was another at Middleton St
George which was part of a road from York
to Newcastle.
#TalkingUpTeesside #TalkingUpTeesValley
Tees Valley
Commuter Challenge
RECORD-BREAKING 56-METRE GIRDERS
DEPART FOR EAST MIDLANDS
C
leveland Bridge UK has fabricated
another record-breaking pair of steel
girders.
The 56-metre-long girders are destined
for the East Midlands where they will form
part of a new bridge spanning the A45 in
Coventry.
Previously, Cleveland Bridge’s record for
its longest girders was 50 metres, set in
2017 for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral
Route project.
Cleveland Bridge has been contracted
to supply, fabricate and erect the bridge,
which features a double-span ladder
deck and a striking mast. The bridge
components, including the 56-metre
girders, have been fabricated at the
company’s extensive production facility in
Darlington, County Durham.
The perfect ten
Ten years of five-star excellence,
fabulous events, glorious food, sublime
spa, championship golf and exceptional
service will be celebrated when Rockliffe
Hall holds an anniversary black tie ball.
Since opening in 2009, the hotel has
won numerous accolades including Visit
England’s Large Hotel of the Year, Good
Spa Guide Best Spa for Luxury, North
East Tourism Awards Hotel of the Year,
Sunday Times Top 100 Restaurants and
Top 100 Ultimate British Hotels, 59Club’s
Golf Flag Award and Best Golf Resort in
Europe.
To mark the occasion, the North’s only
five red star resort is holding what it
promises will be a “glittering” black tie
ball on November 23, from 7pm.
Tickets are priced £115 per person or
£95 for members. To book call 01325
729999.
With a 27,000 square metre fabrication
hall within its 22-acre site, Cleveland Bridge
has the capacity to deliver large-scale steel
structures of this kind, which are produced
by its long-standing highly skilled workforce
and overseen by a team of technical
managers with extensive structural
engineering experience.
Following completion of the record-
breaking girders, Cleveland Bridge
engineers undertook a complex loadout
programme.
Once loaded on to the trailers, the
girders were carried as part of a convoy of
two vehicles, each measuring more than 60
metres in length, on their 180-mile journey
to the bridge construction site. The bridge
will subsequently be installed in March
2020.
The Let’s Go Tees Valley Commuter
Challenge invites people to swap their
usual car journey to work for a more
sustainable method, such as walking,
cycling, car sharing or using the bus
or train. The challenge runs for one
week, with daily prizes to be won as an
incentive, to encourage people to give
it a go and hopefully continue to make
greener choices in future.
During the May Challenge, single
occupancy car journeys reduced by
41.2% and 47 individual companies took
part. The upcoming September Challenge
will run from September 16-22. Why not
sign up your company to take part? Sign
up at: letsgoteesvalley.co.uk/teesbiz
48,000 TONNES OF
SOIL MOVED FROM
AMAZON SITE
NEW CAFÉ ON POINT
AT BUSINESS PARK
Tees firm Scott Bros is repurposing an
unwanted 48,000 tonnes of soil excavated
during the construction of Darlington’s giant
Amazon logistics and distribution hub.
Rather than ending up in landfill, the
Thornaby-based firm is recycling the
sustainable resource by using it to infill an
undulating area of land adjacent to the site
The excavated soil is being carefully
layered to provide a level area to improve
drainage by eliminating water logging and to
make the site visually more appealing.
The onsite café at Lingfield Point
Business Park in Darlington is ‘under
new management’ – and the company
is already looking to invest further in the
town.
Dominic Bowers (pictured, right, with
Lingfield Point estate manager Eddie
Humphries), who runs Totally Delicious
which will operate café Loom, says he’s
had such a good experience of setting up
in Darlington he’s looking for another two
outlets.
The café is being reorganised to make
it more efficient for people who have a
short break and need to ‘grab and go’ as
well as those who have a little longer and
can sit inside.