IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features The Guardian on Clifton Suspension Bridge as ‘A big responsibility’.
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The Guardian’s article features Bridge Master, Tristan Ralph:
….Engineer Tristan Ralph describes task of maintaining and running Bristol structure without public money….
….Ralph, a bridge engineer by profession, was speaking to mark the conclusion of a large refurbishment project that has taken two and a half years….
….As in most walks of life, the climate emergency is a challenge Ralph and the trust are having to face. ‘We were monitoring the bridge daily in the summer with the very hot weather….’
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