Bridge Fabrication
ECS offers a complete service for bridge fabrication, from design and manufacture to installation and maintenance.
Weather protected fabricated steelwork is available alongside innovative recycled plastic materials. ECS can design, fabricate and install bridges of varying spans and usage requirements using either material.
As a framework supplier to the UK Environment Agency, power and water utility companies ECS fabricated and supplies a wide range of bridges structures, rails, walkways and water management installations. ECS specialises in pedestrian bridges and walkways as well as vehicle access structures, including cantilever bridges.
Our service covers a full turnkey design, manufacture and installation service.
ECS structural steel fabrications are CE Marked to Execution Class 3, which essential when producing structural projects such as bridges.
Typical bridge fabrication projects include:
- Pedestrian and cycle bridges.
- Pipe and cable bridges.
- Cantilever bridges
- Ancillary steelwork associated with bridges.
- Individual assemblies up to 25T.
Fibre Reinforced Polymer Road and Footbridges
ECS Engineering Services is a distributor of highly durable fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) bridges.
FRP offers a host of advantages when compared to virgin materials, providing a winning combination of sustainability and durability. Infracore® technology places polymer layers in opposing directions held together by a continuous structural connection between the layers, ensuring that FRP cannot delaminate in application.
Suitable for road or footbridges, ECS has even floated FRP bridge structures down the River Thames for installation on-site.
The benefits of FRP include:
- Manufactured from recycled materials
- Highly resistant to corrosion and UV radiation
- Cost-effective
- Suitable for use in wet environments
- Superior anti-slip properties
- Easy to fabricate
- Low weight
- Reduced transportation costs
- Low maintenance
