Gainsborough River Trent Footbridge
Gainsborough Stakeholder Network - GBP 6m
This concept design commission was for a pedestrian and cycle bridge across the River Trent at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. The 276m long, rotationally symmetrical structure was intended to form a new connection to the town from the Beckingham Marshes to the west of the Trent, completing a circular route comprising riverside paths and the existing Trent Bridge to the south. The concept design, which exploits the structural behaviour of a ring beam to minimise torsion in the deck and yield as visually light a structure as possible, was undertaken in collaboration with Toby Maclean of TALL Engineers.