Yorkshire firms join forces to use new technology

Adept Civil and Structural Consulting Engineers has carried out engineering designs for Fibrwrap UK to strengthen the deck of Scarborough’s Peaseholm Glen Bridge, with more than 900 square metres of carbon fibre.

Fibrwrap UK, which has offices in Leeds and Hull, provides an innovative structural repair service that uses glass and carbon fibre reinforced polymers.

Adept has also designed one of the UK’s biggest ever strengthening projects that uses fibre reinforced polymers, which is on site now. The project will see Fibrwrap’s technology used to strengthen an 11 storey former office building at Archway, North London, to enable two extra storeys to be added as the building is converted into luxury residential apartments.

Other high profile work that Adept has recently completed for Fibrwrap include a bear pit at Dudley Zoo, reinforcing floor plates on the maternity ward at Barnsley General Hospital so three brand new birthing pools could be installed, and strengthening floor slabs at Blackburn Cathedral.

Erol Erturan, Adept’s managing director, said: “Fibrwrap’s technology is hugely effective in adding major structural strength and its uses are endless, so we’re delighted to be working with the firm on these latest prestigious projects.”