Spencer Bridge Engineering has been appointed to carry out works on Kessock Bridge, Forth Road Bridge and Tay Road Bridge during 2025 and 2026.
The three contracts reaffirm the contractor鈥檚 position as one of Scotland鈥檚 leading bridge works specialists.
After previously completing works to design and install a new underdeck gantry on Kessock Bridge in 2018, Spencer Bridge Engineering has been appointed to carry out steelwork modifications, strengthening, and painting for the four towers on the bridge, which crosses the Beauly Firth at Inverness.
These modifications will allow improved access through the towers and an integrated rescue system that will improve safety for workers operating inside the pylons by providing a quick emergency rescue method.
The project requires collaboration between the client, Bear Scotland, and its designer, Jacobs, to ensure the complex steelwork modifications meet the specification.
In a separate project, the Spencer also been appointed to carry out works on the Forth Road Bridge.
Spencer Bridge Engineering鈥檚 team will replace the lateral thrust bearings, near the towers of the bridge, which are at the end of their serviceable life. The bearings are from the original construction in the early 1960s and have been identified on the Forth Road Bridge critical element programme.
The project involves installation of temporary steelwork to enable the replacement operation, including steelwork strengthening, painting and complex temporary access to facilitate the construction works under the bridge deck.
Enabling works will be carried out in 2025, with the bearing replacement works in 2026 during favourable weather.
Completing the hat-trick of Scottish projects, Spencer Bridge Engineering has also been appointed to replace two underdeck gantries on Tay Road Bridge, which connects Dundee to Newport-on-Tay. The two existing gantries have been on the bridge since the 1980s.
Spencer鈥檚 in-house designers will deliver the complex structural, mechanical and electrical design works on this 拢5m project, with the new gantries specially designed to include a number of new innovative design features including a web traction drive system for propulsion.
Spencer operations director Glen Smithson said: 鈥淗aving the ability to provide turnkey solutions, delivering both the design and installation works, enables us to have tight control of each element of the project and ensure we are delivering the highest quality works in the most efficient way.
鈥淥ur ethos of having strong collaboration with our clients ensures our projects are more closely tailored to each client鈥檚 individual needs and specifications.
鈥淥ur teams are adept at working in remote, exposed locations, with difficult logistics, which is another factor which makes us so well equipped to work on so many Scottish infrastructure projects.鈥�
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