Decision details

To award a works contract to Hinko Construction Ltd for the reconstruction of Beggars Wife North Bridge. The contract is a NEC4 ECC Option A contract for a sum of £159,198.15.

Beggars Wife North is in poor condition, the construction being a filler deck making maintenance and improvement the steel beams very difficult. A lack of drawings makes this more difficult.

The decision to replace the deck has allowed the removal of the central pier which removes an obstruction from the watercourse.

Use of stainless steel reinforcement here will reduce the risk of corrosion and deterioration of the structure.

Insitu repairs would have been more difficult to carry out and potentially involved removing most of the deck anyway.

Removing the structure completely, was discounted due to services in the bridge deck and the bridge being an important part of the local highway network in Giggleswick.

Other forms of construction would have been resulted in thicker construction depths which would require a change in road levels of lower soffit with an impact on flood risk.