Blackhall Place Bridge
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I am sorry but I do not agree that the Murcia bridge was adapted for Blackhall Place. At the risk of repeating myself, the bottom bridge on the Murcia page from the Calatrava website looks very different to the Blackhall place bridge. As well as it being a “triple bridge” there seems to be more arches at different angles to each other and column sticking up in the middle of the central bridge.
I see that some scaffolding has gone up around the Georgian building where Joyce’s short storey The Dead is set which is just across the way. Are they at long last finally going to restore this building. This area is an absolute eyesore.
view from down river on a rainy day….
looks quite nimble here on dublincity.ie/traffic, though I haven’t seen it up close yet.
I live right beside the bridge and have lived in anticipation (and noise!) since the construction started.
I do agree that it “stands out”, rather than looks out of place. But the other night, they had the lights on for a while. They are VERY bright !. If you think it is eye-catching now, wait till you see it lit up (you will probably need sunglasses).
On the subject of lighting, does anybody else think it is terrible that the feature lighting on the other bridges is falling into disrepair and is switched off far too early. Sometimes the bridges are in darkness as early as midnight.
They’ve been let go to the dogs those poor bridges! As I have mentioned previously the Millennium Bridge is already in need of repair and its only 3 years old!
Not that all that green and orange looked good in the first place…
yep, i agree about the lighting on the bridges, and who picked those colours? green and orange look awful, very naff….
I think blue would have looked much better under the the arches and then a clear white light for the outside faces of the bridges.
Read page one of this web page and then read this. Sue, for one, will be watching the outcome of this case with interest:
In the Courts
Engineering firm seeks €6.4m for bridge work.
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16 October 2007
Irish Times
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(c) 2007, The Irish Times.A €6.4 million dispute between an engineering company and Dublin City Council over work on the James Joyce Bridge in Dublin has come before the Commercial Court.
Carillion Irishenco is claiming €6.4 million for additional costs which it claims to have incurred in steelwork fabrication carried out on the bridge near Blackhall Place.
The claim was rejected by the council and went to arbitration. The arbitrator decided on July 31st, 2007, that Carillion was not entitled to extra costs.
The James Joyce Bridge was designed by Santiago Calatrava Valls. Engineering firm Roughan O’Donovan was appointed consulting engineers, and Carillion Irishenco in March 2001 entered into a contract with the council to construct the bridge, the court was told in documents presented yesterday to Mr Justice Peter Kelly.
Carillion subcontracted the steelwork fabrication and erection to Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries Ltd. Carillion claims that, during the network fabrication work, Harland and Wolff experienced “significant difficulties” in effecting welds to a cruciform joint and refused to proceed until it received an instruction from the engineer amending the design.
An alternative design was agreed, and instructions were issued by the engineer for Carillion Irishenco to proceed. Carillion’s claim is for the “significant additional costs” incurred in connection with the extra steel fabrication work.
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