Arup, in partnership with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P), has designed a bridge visualisation tool to support bridge construction in East Africa and Central America.
The tool, developed as an offline app, creates interactive 3D models of trailbridges, detailing the construction stage by stage. B2P’s teams use it to train local communities, which often act as the main construction workforce on the projects. It has been tested on seven bridge projects in Rwanda, and is now available for all B2P projects.
B2P will also use the tool in the pre-construction phase when negotiating project proposals with government stakeholders. It will also enable more efficient operations during construction.
B2P is a US non-profit organisation that partners with local governments in Africa to connect communities via pedestrian bridges to curb poverty caused by rural isolation.
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