DRY BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 434, 6 May 1932, Page 8

DRY BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION

METHODS IN ROTORUA SUCCESS IN COUNTY ROTORUA, Wed. The Rotorua County Council" engineer, Mr. T. S. Rpbertson, has recently adjopted a method of tunnelling which ill' certain' 'lnstances 'will 'obviate the neces< sity for the erection of road bridges. The. method is known as the dry bridge' system, and entails the con sti'uction of a large tunnel .culvert supporting the road' surface: ■ '•( ~.. The : first of these dry-bridges; is at present, in the course of construction' oh the' Tauranga-Rotorua direct road at Rereng'ai- and Mr.' Robertson pu;>; poses using ' similar construction.} methods in other places where bridges 'are required. • 'Mi'.' A. L. Keith, at Wednesdays meeting of the council, said' that lie had visited the work at Rerenga, and had been most impressed by the possibilities/ The work would obviate the necessity for bridge construction and would result in a direct saving of £IOOO. He considered that ths council should place on record itk appreciation of the work carried out by the engineer in this connection. A motion to that effect' was seconded by the chairman, Mr. H. P. Ford, and carried, unanimously.