A bridge too far?

摘要

Bridges must always be epic engineering projects involving years of construction work and vast amounts of steel and concrete, right? Wrong. New de sign and construction techniques mean that bridges can be put together in a matter of days-and they can even be made out of plastic. Consider the InfraCore bridge, a design launched in January by Composieten Team, a firm based in Rotterdam. The designers' goal was to shave months, or years, off the commissioning of new bridges, a process that typically entails lengthy rounds of sketching, specifying and contracting.