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Aecom engineer Dr Robin Sham has designed a Guinness World Record-breaking suspension bridge made entirely out of Lego.
The 31m-long model, the world’s longest Lego bridge, is at the centre of a new exhibition that celebrates the civil engineers who have created some of the world’s greatest bridges. The Bridge Engineering exhibition at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in London opens this week and runs for six months.
It marks the start of a five-year programme of infrastructure-focused exhibitions at ICE’s One Great George Street home in Westminster.
The Lego bridge stands over 3m tall, weighs 750kg and is made up of more than 200,000 individual plastic bricks.
The exhibition guides visitors on a tour of structures through the years from Thomas Telford’s Menai Strait suspension bridge, to the Severn Bridge and Scotland’s Queensferry Crossing. An interactive zone also allows visitors and children to become civil engineers for the day by constructing their own bridges.
Sham said: “Bridges connect people and places, both physically and emotionally. The ICE’s visionary Lego bridge project connects civil engineers with the public, demonstrating the monumental accomplishments of civil engineering.
“Using familiar Lego bricks to demystify and showcase the extraordinary feats of engineers, I hope the next generation will be inspired to consider engineering as a career.”
A great project,
how long and how
many people
to make it.
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