Lego Bridge, Liverpool

Kier, Curtins and Walker Sime, working in collaboration with the ICE, have brought a major feat of engineering and building to Liverpool to encourage the next generation of designers, engineers and builders.

The Lego Bridge has been assembled with the help of our very own Chris Hagan and Emma Tyler at the Capital Building on Old Hall Street and is now open to the Public. The Guinness World Record-holding bridge, designed for the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and originally displayed at their headquarters in Westminster. It stands at 3 metres tall with a span of 31 metres – almost the length of three Liverpool double-decker buses end-to-end. More than 200,000 individual LEGO bricks, weighing altogether three-quarters of a tonne, has gone into its construction.

“As part of our ongoing commitment to CSR the Lego Bridge will allow local school children to come and marvel at the bridge and perhaps start to think about a career in Civil and Construction where they will get the chance to build real bridges like the new Mersey Gateway and all the other infrastructure that literally shapes our world”.

ICE News – Lego Bridge

Liverpool Echo – Lego Bridge

ITV News – Lego Bridge

  

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