The River Clyde Bridge is a 184m double cable-stayed swing bridge connecting Renfrew to Clydebank and Yoker.
The talk will start with the bridge location in Glasgow and introductions to the team involved in the design and construction. This is a design and build project.
Paul van Hagen and Giacomo Mauriello will describe the structural and mechanical behaviour of a double cable stayed swing bridge and it is complexity.
Paul and Giacomo will then talk about the bridge balance and its arrangement. This bridge is an asymmetric or “bobtail” arrangement of the bridge (65m forward spans and 27m back spans). The bridge has been designed to carry vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians on two carriageways and two pedestrian footpaths.
The talk will look at the behaviour of the mechanical elements listed below.
The talk will also discuss the design complexity related to the interaction between the mechanical and structural elements.
Paul van Hagen, Principle Bridge engineer, Hardesty and Hanover
Paul is a structural engineer with a Bachelor of Science degree from Kingston University in the London. He has over 31 years of experience in major, movable and railway bridge design, evaluation, inspection and construction. He has also provided resident engineering services for several projects including movable bridge rehabilitation and roadway reconstruction projects.
Paul has worked chiefly in the NY area for several bridge design firms, most recently HDR Engineering of Omaha. In the USA, Paul van involved in several high-profile bridge design projects, notably the Bayonne Bridge Raise the Roadway project, for which he was lead engineer.
Paul returned to the UK in 2016 as Chief Engineer with Atkins in Epsom. There Paul worked as Lead Engineer for the feasibility studies ongoing at the Heathrow Expansion Project and took the position of Project Manager for the Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf Thames crossing. He then took the position of Senior Technical Director with Arcadis in Croydon. At Arcadis he has worked on HS2 and the Lower Thames Crossing. Since 2022 Paul has led the new London office for Hardesty & Hanover in London.
Paul is a chartered engineer and is professionally registered in the USA in New York and Florida.
Giacomo Mauriello, Senior Bridge engineer, Hardesty and Hanover
Giacomo has more than 13 years’ experience as structural engineer designing and constructing civil structures such as rail, road and pedestrian bridges, culverts, retaining walls, earthworks, and other structures related to highways and railways projects. He has gained international design experience working four years in Italy, five years in the United Kingdom, one year in the United States and three years in the United Arabic Emirates (Abu Dhabi). He started working in Naples (Italy) as a civil engineer being involved in buildings and foundations design. After the completion of his MSc (Honors), he worked in Chieti (near Pescara, center of Italy) as a Bridge & Tunnel Engineer and Assistant Project Manager for about three years.
In June 2014, Giacomo joined Atkins Middle East (Abu Dhabi) as Bridge Engineer. He worked on Dubai and Riyadh Metro. He had about one year experience in Baltimore (USA) as Programme Manager for a construction of 750MW Offshore Wind Farm Energy in which he led the team through the development stage. In January 2018 he moved to London working for Atkins as Senior Bridge Engineer and then Structural Team Lead.
Since March 2022, Giacomo has joined Hardesty and Hanover as Senior Bridge engineer looking after the design of bridges and structures in London and Europe.