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Angle Vale Bridge, Angle Vale, SA
The Angle Vale Bridge is the largest and best example of the three historic arch bridges remaining in Australia. All are in South Australia.
Using technology originally imported from Europe and America, laminated arch bridges were constructed in many Australian colonies from as early as 1853.
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Bemis Bridge, Hart's Location, NH, USA
This graceful asymmetrical cable-stayed bridge across the Saco River connects homes in Hart’s Location, NH to the outside world and carries skiers and hikers to Mount Washington. Designers were challenged by the special requirements set down for the new bridge which directed that the span be unobtrusive with environmental appeal, require low maintenance, not impede the spring runoff, and be built within a limited budget.
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Chechessee Creek Club Bridge, Beaufort County, SC, USA
The Chechessee Creek Club bridge located on an exclusive golf course in Beaufort County, South Carolina carries vehicular plus other traffic on the golf course. Designers were challenged to preserve the natural surroundings in building a bridge to span a wetland area leading to four home sites.
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Composite timber and concrete bridge over the Maria River
Composite timber and concrete bridge that has served on one on Australia's busiest roads for over 40 years.
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Cowra Bridge, Cowra, NSW
The Cowra bridge is the largest remaining example of a composite steel and timber vehicular bridge in Australia. It was the second of three bridges built across the Lachlan River at Cowra. For the first bridge, opened in 1870, American bridge building technology was imported and three spans of patent designed McCallum trusses were built.
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Elwood Canal Pedestrian Bridge, St Kilda, Victoria
This pedestrian bridge is a simply supported curved beam structure. The primary elements of the bridge, a pair of glue laminated jarrah beams provided the minimum clearance needed under the bridge for boating
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Embarras River Bridge, IL, USA
The bridge is recognized as the longest single-span covered timber bridge in the U.S without a posted load restriction.
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Flitch's Covered Bridge, East Delhi, NY, USA
The historic Fitch’s Covered Bridge was originally built in 1870 and was located within the village of Delhi, New York. In 1885, it was dismantled and relocated to its current site about three miles north of Delhi to make room for a "modern" iron bridge.
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Hampden Bridge, Kangaroo Valley, NSW
The Hampden Bridge is a 77.1 m span three pin suspension bridge with timber stiffening trusses and decking. Each side of the bridge has a pair of trusses. These bear on stone footings at each end of the bridge and meet at a hinged joint at the centre
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Hampden Bridge, Wagga Wagga, NSW
The bridge is a Howe through truss with timber top and bottom chords, timber compression diagonals and vertical steel tension rods. It has three 33.5 m (110') truss spans and nine trestle and beam approach spans. All the timber elements in the main spans are spaced pairs of members while timber to timber joints are cast iron compression seats.
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Il Poggio Bridge, Washington, CT, USA
Three pairs of graceful 10-3/4" deep curved glulam timber sections create the bridge structure. Each glulam section spans 7.6 m (25 ft) between concrete piers and abutments.
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Lockport Bridge, Lockport, OH, USA
Ohio’s tradition of covered timber bridges inspired the construction of the Lockport Covered Bridge across the Tiffin River between West Unity and Stryker.
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Madison Footbridge, Madison, CT, USA
The bridge is a structural monolithic slab, prefabricated off-site in six parallel S-shaped lengths of pressure treated glulam timber, lifted into position by crane and clamped together with predrilled, threaded rods.
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McFarlane Bridge, Maclean, NSW
This bridge has 16 timber beam spans and one wrought iron and timber lifting span of 20.3 m The beam spans are constructed from five lines of natural round grey ironbark beams bearing on compound corbels.
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Military Road Bridge, Herkimer and Oneida Counties, NY, USA
When two counties in upper New York State decided to replace a deteriorating concrete bridge over West Canada Creek, they turned to an engineering firm that recommended a glued laminated spandrel arch design with glulam bents, deck, and railings.
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Milwaukee Street Bridge, Jefferson, WI, USA
This graceful structure has two spans with a total length of 73 m (240 ft). A 3-hinged buttressed arch has vertical rods supporting floor beams and stringers with longitudinal deck panels. The clear width is 3.5 m (12 ft). The radius of the arch is 26 m (85 ft).
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Monkerai Bridge, over the Karuah River, NSW
In the late 1850s, the NSW Government opened up land west of the Great Dividing Range for farming. Settlement spread. As traffic on the embryonic road system increased, the need to provide reliable bridges across the numerous inland waterways became critical.
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Mordialloc Creek Pedestrian Bridge, Mordialloc, Victoria
The Mordialloc Creek bridge is a 40 m span three pin arch structure that follows in the tradition of timber arch bridges established by the 50 m span Greensborough Bridge built in 1975.
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Old Gardiner Road Bridge, Port Townsend, WA, USA
The Old Gardiner Road bridge is the longest bridge submitted in the National Timber Bridge competition. It consists of seven spans totalling 89 m (294 ft) long and 10.3 m (34 ft) wide including a 2 m (6.2 ft) pedestrian walkway. The bridge is constructed using longitudinal glulam girders with transverse glulam deck panels. The longitudinal girders are supported on concrete caps with steelpile piers.
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Pedestrian Bridge, Greensborough, Victoria
This pedestrian bridge is a three pin arch structure which spans 50 m over the Plenty River. The main arch members are parabolically curved glue laminated radiata pine elements positioned 1800 mm apart.
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Powder Mill Road Bridge, Canton, CT, USA
A historic steel truss bridge was relocated and widened using a pressure treated, glued laminated timber deck in this creative renovation at Canton, CT. The 75-year-old Pony Truss Bridge was strengthened and the glulam timber deck was added for dead load reduction.
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Skidmore Bridge, Union, MA, USA
The Skidmore Bridge at Union, Maine utilises a new FRP reinforced glulam bridge deck system. The main span is 20.5 m (68 ft) long and 7 m (23’ 6") wide. The FRP-glulam panels are 8-1/2" deep, 48" wide, and 23’ 7-1/2" long.
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Slate Covered Bridge, Swanzey, NH, USA
The original covered bridge at this site in Swanzey, New Hampshire was built during the Civil War and was lost to arson in 1993. The town wanted to replace this piece of local heritage with a similar bridge.
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Tar River Trail Bridge, Rocky Mount, NC, USA
A new bridge across the Tar River was needed to complete a 5.6 km (3.5 mile) greenway path for bikers, runners, walkers and hikers in Rocky Mount, N.C. The solution was a timber bridge, because the park department determined "since it’s a wooded setting, a wood bridge fits in better."
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Tohickon Aqueduct, Point Pleasant, PA, USA
The first aqueduct bridge in this location was built during the 1830s, when Andrew Jackson was president. The current timber aqueduct is the fifth bridge, following the deterioration of previous metal truss and concrete designed spans built in the past century.
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