Low Sizergh Footbridge

Cake Engineering was asked to develop designs for a repair and associated temporary works to the flood damaged main suspension cable on a historic footbridge on the National Trust estate.

This project was written up in a paper presented at “Footbridge 2026” in Chur, Switzerland:
Knight D.F. Flood loading on heritage bridges – looking after Low Sizergh Suspension Bridge: https://doi.org/10.24904/footbridge2025.42
Services: Structural engineering from concept to detailed design
Client: National Trust
Project management and Principal Designer: JBA Consulting Engineers
Location: Low Sizergh, Kendall, UK