The modular precast flexible abutment facilitates quicker construction of extended integral bridges, enhancing productivity and implementing DfMA principles across diverse structure configurations and typologies previously unexplored.
Developed through advanced digital modelling and comprehensive trials, this solution reduces programme risks by decreasing interfaces between disciplines and significantly accelerating substructure construction.
By integrating full-height precast sleeves, flexible columns, abutment shells, and a special cill on a common foundation, the abutment allows simultaneous assembly of retaining walls and flexible bridge supports, merging two construction phases into one.
This innovation boosts efficiency, enabling faster work and achieving more with fewer resources. The modular flexible abutment represents a significant advancement in integral bridge construction, with aims to be 50% faster than traditional methods while ensuring cleaner, safer operations that are less demanding on personnel.
Our physical trials have yielded promising results. Through off-site manufacturing, stringent factory-led quality assurance, and swift on-site assembly, we ensure programme certainty for infrastructure clients, offering solutions that minimise disruption to communities and daily travellers.
