COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

QUESTION NO. 3

QUESTION: Councillor Derren Ó Brádaigh

To ask the manager to outline the protocol for vehicular bridge inspections across the county - more specifically can the manager comment on any recent or future scheduled 'stress' test inspections of Lucan Bridge.

REPLY:

The Bridge Asset Management Project (BAMP) was a project initiated by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in 2015. The intention of this project is to;

• Identify the location of all structures and record their dimensions
• Assign an initial rating (the Maintenance Rating) to the structure by carrying out a Maintenance Inspection
• Assign an overall Condition Rating to the Structure by carrying out Engineering Inspections (EI).

The last such survey in South Dublin was carried out by Roughan and O’Donovan in 2012/13. A total of 99 structures were surveyed at that time.

In 2020 a bridge inventory survey was carried out in order to identify and locate all the bridges in the county. There are approximately 162 bridges identified in South Dublin.

Road Maintenance are preparing a tender to procure a consultant to carry out a full engineering inspection of all bridges and structures in the Spring / Summer of this year.

Lucan Bridge will be included in these surveys and any works identified will be added to a programme of works