Temporary bridges and working platforms keep a programme moving where the ground stops it: modular panel and beam bridges spanning watercourses, services and gaps for pedestrians, plant or site traffic, and engineered working platforms that put a rated surface under piling rigs, cranes and over-water works. EMIS sources and coordinates these systems through approved manufacturers and suppliers, rated to the load case and delivered with the certification the temporary works coordinator needs.
A temporary bridge is a designed structure with a short life and a full-size consequence if it is wrong. Modular panel bridges, beam bridges and prefabricated crossings are specified to the span, the traffic, pedestrian, plant or highway-legal vehicles, and the abutment arrangement the ground allows, then installed and removed with minimal civils. They carry haul routes over watercourses, protect buried services from tracked plant, and keep public rights of way open through a worksite.
Working platforms carry a different duty: a rated, engineered surface under the heaviest items on site. A piling platform failure is one of the most serious incidents temporary works can produce, so platform design, materials and verification carry certification the temporary works coordinator must be able to evidence. Over water, engineered platforms and jetties stage plant and materials where no ground exists at all.
EMIS sources both families through approved manufacturers and specialist suppliers, working from the temporary works design, span and load schedule to a specification the market can price, coordinating quotations, and arranging delivery through trusted logistics partners with load ratings, test certificates and technical data held ready for sign-off.
The project types and sectors this category most often serves.
Haul routes that cross ditches, rivers and buried services need rated temporary bridges installed quickly. EMIS specifies span and loading and coordinates supply to the earthworks programme.
Rig and crane operations need engineered working platforms with verified bearing capacity. We source platform systems and materials to the temporary works design with certification for the coordinator.
Keeping footpaths and rights of way open through works needs pedestrian bridges with edge protection and compliant gradients. EMIS coordinates rated systems that satisfy the principal contractor's access plan.
Marine and river works need staged platforms and jetties that put plant and materials over water safely. We coordinate the platform package alongside the marine plant and access arrangements.
Vetting, specification and lead-time coordination, handled before the product reaches your site.
Span, load case and abutment arrangement come from the design and its check, the system that arrives satisfies the designer, not approximately.
Load ratings, test certificates and technical data are held ready for the temporary works coordinator, so the crossing or platform can be permitted without chasing evidence.
Bridge and platform components arrive when the sequence calls for them, coordinated through trusted logistics partners, including HIAB offload where the site needs it.
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