Falkirk Wheel. The Falkirk Wheel The plan to regenerate central Scotland's canals and reconnect Glasgow with Edinburgh was led by British Waterways with support and funding from seven local authorities, the Scottish Enterprise Network, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Millennium Commission.
Planners decided early on to create a dramatic 21st-century landmark structure to reconnect the canals, instead of simply recreating the historic lock flight. History[edit] Pre-1933 link[edit] Animation showing how the wheel turns. The two canals served by the wheel were previously connected by a series of 11 locks.[2][3] With a 35 metres (115 ft) difference in height, it required 3,500 tonnes (3,400 long tons; 3,900 short tons) of water per run and took most of a day to pass through the flight.[4] Proposal[edit] Panoramic view of the wheel and aqueduct. Design[edit] The Morrison-Bachy Soletanche Joint Venture Team submitted their original design, which resembled a ferris wheel with four gondolas in 1999. The Falkirk Wheel Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland.
The Falkirk Wheel was opened by the Queen in May 2002.
Nothing like it has ever been built before anywhere in the world. Boat lifts are nothing new, though the last built in the UK was in 1875. But a rotating boat lift? The result is awe-inspiring and beautiful: the largest piece of functional sculpture you will ever see. Falkirk Wheel. British Waterways unveiled the thrilling centrepiece of The Millennium Link canal project in December 1999 – the Falkirk Wheel, the world’s first rotating boat lift.
As much a sculpture for the 21st Century as a feat of engineering, the Falkirk Wheel combines state-of-the art engineering, traditional Scottish imagery and marine architecture. Four years in the planning, the Wheel is a collaboration between some of the UK's brightest architects and engineers, and is already being hailed as a future international landmark.
The Falkirk Wheel: A great day out in central Scotland. Welcome to the The Falkirk Wheel - the Worlds Only Rotating Boatlift. Falkirk Wheel « GeoTopoi. The 35-mile-long Forth & Clyde Canal was built between 1768 and 1790 to provide a shipping route across central Scotland from the Firth of Forth in the east to the Firth of Clyde in the west.
A route from its eastern end to Edinburgh — a distance of about 31 miles — was created with the construction of the Union Canal between 1818 and 1822. The two canals were connected by a flight of 11 locks at Falkirk, where their difference in height was 35 metres. Competition from the railways spelt the demise of the canals. Commercial use of the Union Canal came to an end in the 1930s and the flight of locks at Falkirk was filled in and built over. The Forth & Clyde Canal ultimately fell into disuse in the 1960s when it was closed in order to avoid having to build a motorway crossing.
British Waterways, with support from a number of sources, including National Lottery funding via the Millennium Commission, led an £84.5m project to revitalise the two canals. Falkirk Wheel. Case Study Falkirk Wheel unique steel rotating boat lift linear and nonlinear analysis solid element modelling of movement sensitive connections LUSAS Bridge analysis software was used as the primary analysis tool by Tony Gee and Partners (TGP) for preliminary and subsequent detailed design work on the Falkirk Wheel.
The Wheel (as it is known) is a unique lifting bridge designed to reconnect the Forth & Clyde and Union canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh in Scotland. It is the world’s first rotating boat lift and the first boat lift to be built in the UK since 1875. Overview The project is part of a £78m British Waterways scheme to restore the two canals to their former glory. The Wheel has an outside diameter of 35m, and comprises two 1.4m wide steel, clawed arms rotating on a 3.5 m diameter axle. The Falkirk Wheel - Stirling in Scotland. Reconnecting the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh and opened by British Waterways in December 1999, the Falkirk Wheel is the centrepiece to the Millennium Link canal project.
The Falkirk Wheel in Lowlands. Falkirk Wheel, Boat Lift Scotland, Union Canal, Falkirk Wheel Scotland. Falkirk Wheel Bonnybridge boat lift Images from RMJM: Address: Lime Rd, Falkirk, FK1 4RS Phone: 01324 619888 Location: off Bonnyhill Road, take junction 1 off M876 The World’s only rotating boatlift, used to connect the Forth & Clyde and Union canals, operated by British Waterways, designed by Tony Kettle of RMJM Extension to the Falkirk Wheel visitor centre completed by RMJM Glasgow in 2003: Building Photo by Andrew Lee.
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