Workers recently dug the rusted remnants of an ancient railway bridge on a former train track bed connecting the towns of Midleton and Youghal in County Cork,
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Construction Business Review | Friday, March 11, 2022
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Bridges made of recycled wind turbine blades are expected to be the beginning of a new trend for infrastructure projects, according to the experts.
FREMONT, CA: Workers recently dug the rusted remnants of an ancient railway bridge on a former train track bed connecting the towns of Midleton and Youghal in County Cork, Ireland, and replaced it with a pedestrian bridge. If the bridge was not made of recycled wind turbine blades, it would have been an unremarkable milestone in the creation of a new pedestrian greenway through the Irish countryside, making it the world's second blade bridge. The first, which was installed in a tiny village in western Poland last October, started its operation in early January. These bridges are anticipated to be the start of a new trend of recycling outdated wind turbine blades for infrastructure projects, according to the engineers and entrepreneurs. It keeps them out of landfills and reduces the amount of energy used to create new building materials. When civil engineer Kieran Ruane first saw concept designs for a bridge made out of wind turbine blades, the idea immediately appealed to him.
