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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject:
The Squiggly bridge seems to be going through a wee stage of progress .. when I passed last week there was a large concrete support in position mid-clyde.
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Thanks AllanM. So there's a squiggly bridge and there's a squinty bridge - I never not knew that But now I'm all straightened out. _________________ Well I am.
LEGAL action has been launched over the collapse of a support cable on
Glasgow's "Squinty Bridge".
A year after the landmark was closed for six months, supplier Macalloy is
accused of supplying faulty steel, poor manufacturing and allegedly
providing metal which failed to match test certificates.
Watson Steel, fabricator of the £20.3million bridge, officially known as the
Clyde Arc, is suing South Yorkshire-based Macalloy for £1.8m.
Watson was forced to replace all 14 of the 35-metre supporting hangers
on the bridge after one crashed on to the carriageway on January 14 last
year.
The bridge, funded by Glasgow City Council with Edmund Nuttall as the
lead contractor, was just 15 months old and had won one of Scotland's
leading awards when it was deemed unsafe.
Watson claims the metal used in the sections which connected the
four-tonne hangers to the frame did not match any grades of steel
recognised in the UK for general engineering purposes and alleges that it
was significantly more brittle than had been specified by Macalloy.
Certificates relating to the steel supplied by Macalloy, which was
responsible for the testing of components before delivery, allegedly failed
to match results of tests on the steel in the bridge forks taken after the
incident, Watson claims.
It is understood Macalloy, who declined to comment, has yet to respond
to the claims.
James H
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But now I'm all straightened out.
