Wind blades arrive at Cork Institute of Technology for pedestrian bridge construction

Wind turbine blades for a pedestrian bridge to be constructed on a greenway in County Cork, Ireland have arrived at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT). Kieran Ruane, Lecturer and Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer at CIT, is leading a team of researchers and engineers who are designing and constructing the novel bridge built with decommissioned wind blades. Ruane is supported by Re-Wind team members at University College Cork, Georgia Tech and Queens University Belfast. The wind blades were donated by Everun in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Wind blade at the structural engineering laboratory of Cork Institute of Technology (Photo: Kieran Ruane)

Offloading wind blades (photo: Kieran Ruane)

LiDAR scanning and loading of blades at Everun Ltd, Belfast, UK (Photo: Conor Graham)