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Smallholding => Buildings & planning => Topic started by: Houston, WeHaveAProblem on October 03, 2018, 02:13:22 pm

Title: How to design & build a culvert bridge
Post by: Houston, WeHaveAProblem on October 03, 2018, 02:13:22 pm

Can anyone recommend a Civil Engineer that can design and/or build a Culvert bridge to cross a small burn?

Its in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders.

thanks

Title: Re: How to design & build a culvert bridge
Post by: pgkevet on October 03, 2018, 07:16:08 pm

I suppose that primarily depends on whether you need planning approval for it. I have two bridges.. one is a right of access from my land to another's filed and is essentially a couple of RSJ's spanning the thing and then planks across those. But the guy whose land they go to has left it neglected for decades and i woudnlt trust it for more than foot traffic along a girder. He takes  a quad bike across those rotten planks and tin-sheets that i wouldn't tread on.
The other good bridge crossing between my own fields is basically a huge concrete pipe section sitting in the stream and then gravel filled to level it and fenced - simple effective and safe for large tractors to cross.
If you need planning for any reason then any architect should be able to put you in touch with appropriate engineers - just wait until the bill arrives though...

pgk

Title: Re: How to design & build a culvert bridge
Post by: Bogart on November 01, 2018, 08:32:22 am

Getting the concrete pipe section in situ must have been fun. ;D

The original poster mentions a " small" burn I think a lot depends on his/her definition of small. I have a bridge spanning a field drainage ditch using railway sleepers, framed and grassed over takes the weight of a vehicle/tractor fine.