BRIME

BRIdge Management in Europe

WORKPACKAGES, Work breakdown structure

The project commenced in January 1998 and finishes at the end of December 1999. It has been divided into eight workpackages, each of which is coordinated by one of the partners as indicated below:

• Workpackage 1: Classification of the condition of a structure (Slovenia).
• Workpackage 2: Assessing the load carrying capacity of existing bridges, including the use of risk based methods (Germany/France).
• Workpackage 3: Modelling of deteriorated structures and effect of deterioration on load carrying capacity (United Kingdom).
• Workpackage 4: Modelling of deterioration rates (Norway).
• Workpackage 5: Deciding whether a sub-standard or deteriorated structure should be repaired, strengthened or replaced (Spain).
• Workpackage 6: Prioritising bridges in terms of their need or repair, rehabilitation or improvement (Slovenia).
• Workpackage 7: Review of systems for bridge management and development of a framework for a bridge management system (France/United Kingdom).
• Workpackage 8: Project Co-ordination (United Kingdom).

Workpackage 1 to 6 provide the modules required to make up a bridge management system and the combination of information from these different modules will be studied in workpackage 7 which will also examine the various systems currently available for doing this. Each workpackage is broken down into a series of tasks as shown on the following page.