The foil is meant to deflect the sun's heat.
Wrapping the bridge in foil to deflect the sun's heatin foil to keep the cracks from spreading and ultimately destroying the development. In August of 2020, the bridge even had to be shut down due to these cracks, and it only reopened for river traffic, cyclists and pedestrians last July.
This reopening was due to the work of Hammersmith & Fulham Council’s world-leading engineers, who installed a pioneering £420,000 temperature control system to keep the bridge at a safe temperature and deal with any stresses on its pedestals. “The safety of the public is our first priority,” said Sebastian Springer, Arcadis Project Manager on the bridge works. “The temperature control system allows us to track weather spikes and maintain a constant temperature. As we deal with the current extreme heat, we are also coming up with innovative solutions to keep the temperature within the threshold.”The bridge's chains are anchored to the river bed and are kept below 13 degrees Celsius at all times.
Monday and Tuesday of this week were expected to be particularly hot, so the engineers ran the cooling systems throughout the night and wrapped the parts of the bridge above the water in foil to reflect away the sun's heat.Hammersmith Bridge was built-in 1887 and is currently one of the world's oldest suspension bridges. This makes it very expensive to repair. Just the first phase of works to stabilize the micro-fractures in the pedestals would cost the council £8.9m .
is listed as a Grade II structure made out of wood and wrought iron and a suspension held in place by cast iron pedestals.Advertisement
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