Scots Span the Forth

During the summer months of 2023/24, our customer VolkerLaser was working with the Tay Road Bridge Joint Board to carry out restoration works to Tay Road Bridge, a key transport link connecting Fife to Dundee.

Since its construction in 1966, the bridge has faced decades of wear and tear, and exposure to the harsh Scottish elements, and the time had come for the road deck to receive a well-earned refurbishment.

In addition to the repair and resurfacing of the road deck, there were multiple areas of the underdeck soffit requiring repairs to the concrete. HAKI Access Solutions were awarded the contract to supply the underdeck access required to complete these repairs.

The Queensferry Crossing was probably the largest Scottish civil engineering project of a generation. HAKI Access were involved throughout the construction of the bridge to assist the joint venture with a number of access requirements

The bridge was successfully opened to traffic on time, however there were still a quantity of non-essential snags that required to be rectified before the bridge could be considered complete. One such snag to address was the poor alignment of the underside monorails spanning the length of the bridge that allowed the MOOG permanent mobile gantries to travel along the underside. There were many gaps between the monorail beams in addition to lower flanges not aligning as designed.

Following on from earlier successful temporary access installations and tank refurbishments in the refinery and the adjacent loading jetty, the operators were interested in other alternative access offerings that would help in the reduction of the scaffolding footprint on the ground and the resulting unwanted congestion and visual impact this creates.