When we drove to Karawa last week I got these pictures of the new Kungu bridge which was completed while we were gone.
view towards Gemena of new bridge surface
The beams for this bridge are 24″x 24″x 33 ft long. Engineer Kade Zongalinga had to do a special set up on his sawmill to cut them. He put two of the rails together so it would be long enough.
For reference, this is the old bridge in early June. Read the story at this blog entry. http://blogs.covchurch.org/ekstrand/?p=3066.
Bridge leaning to one side. Notice the broken I beams.
this shows the gabions filled with rocks which serve as the abutments on each end.
Kade probably used a support similar to this one to get the long beams across the span.
view of the gabions and erosion protection at one end of the bridge
