It's All Water Under the Bridge

摘要

The engineer who designed the wobbly bridge is back - with another footbridge. Chris Wise, the former Arup man who designed London's Millennium Bridge, has his own company, Expedition Engineering, and it has designed a footbridge for Stockton-on-Tees -hopefully without its infamous forerunner's wobble. "This is the first slender bridge I've done since leaving Arup," he says. Understandably, Wise has taken every precaution to make sure the Northbank Bridge will be rock solid. "We have tried to learn from the Millennium Bridge - and every other bridge built in the past five years," he says. "This bridge couldn't be built but for the Millennium Bridge -so every cloud has a silver lining. If something goes wrong, and is studied very intensively, that knowledge feeds back into the gene pool so you can benefit."