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Bearing Inspection & Replacement

At Spencer Bridge Engineering, we deliver specialist bearing inspection and replacement solutions for bridge structures, ensuring safe, reliable and efficient performance of critical assets where bearings enable controlled movement, load transfer and long-term structural stability under traffic, environmental and operational demands.

Bridge bearings operate in highly demanding environments and over time can deteriorate due to repeated movement cycles, loading, weather exposure and installation tolerances, which can result in reduced performance, altered load paths and potential impacts on structural alignment and integrity if not effectively managed.

A safety-led approach underpins all of our bearing inspection and replacement works, ensuring that complex lifting and jacking operations, structural load transfer and temporary stability conditions are carefully controlled through detailed engineering, sequencing and risk-managed delivery methods designed for live operational environments.

Bearing inspection and replacement is a critical intervention in maintaining bridge performance, ensuring that movement is preserved, structural integrity is protected and assets continue to operate safely and efficiently under ongoing service demands.

Our multi-disciplinary capability combines civil and structural engineering with jacking systems, mechanical components and access solutions, enabling us to diagnose issues, develop tailored replacement strategies, integrate lifting methodologies safely and coordinate delivery with wider maintenance or refurbishment programmes while maintaining operational continuity.

We provide detailed bearing inspections and condition assessments, supported by load and performance evaluation to understand structural behaviour. Based on this, we deliver bearing replacement and installation using jacking and lifting systems to safely manage movement and load transfer. We also refurbish and upgrade existing bearing systems, integrate access and temporary works, and apply lifecycle planning to support long-term performance and maintainability.

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