It's a bit windy today so I hope that Jennings have not cleared the sand yet because it will be on its way back again.
Nice little earner there for the firm, just like the Forth Bridge.
I was going to make a cheeky comment....at least they have managed to sort out the problem of the Forth bridge and the problem..... finish at one end, start again, however after checking the facts, I dont think we want CCBC to go along the same route........
The painting of the Forth Bridge has finally been completed and the structure is now scaffold-free for the first time in a decade.
The repair and repainting project to paint the rail bridge took
10 years and cost £130m.
It has been claimed it will not now need another paint job for at least 25 years. New techniques and products are behind the project's success.
A
400-strong team applied a triple layer of new glass flake epoxy paint.
It creates a chemical bond to provide a virtually impenetrable layer to protect the bridge's steel work from the weather.
The project, delivered by Network Rail and main contractor Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering, involved encasing the bridge in up to 4,000 tonnes of scaffolding, painting over 230,000sqm of steel and all 6.5 million rivets in the structure.
Over the life of the project more than 1,500 people worked on the structure, with up to 400 people a day on the bridge at the height of the refurbishment works.