Paratec - Case History - Walcot Road Bridge, Telford


	Built in limestone and spanning the river Tern, Walcot Road bridge is an historic structure with a grade II listing. As it was contructed long before the development of motorised traffic, it is vunerable to the
		modern demands placed upon it. The narrow roadway has led to numerous collisions and scrapes along its parapet walls for which Wrekin Council had correspondingy undertaken various stonework repairs.

It was decided to pre-empt future repair work with a parapet reinforcement scheme. Cintec provided a solution that met both engineering and aesthetic requirements. With the use of non-percussive diamond core drilling, thirty-six prestressed Cintec anchors of between 1.4m and 2.8m in length were installed vertically through the parapet walls and into the arch barrel. Core drilled sections of the monolithic coping stones were then replaced and grouted into the entrance of the anchor holes to provide an almost invisible finish.