environmentally friendly portable bridges

Washed Out Road, No Problem

Weather has been playing havoc in all parts of the country recently. Whether it is rain, tornados or flooding, something seems to be affecting just about every region. One of the big problems for many rural people is having their only roadway washed out by some of these huge rain storms.

ERE recently ran into this situation and the question was, how can you turn this,

and this,

into a workable solution that allows a local farmer to leave his property? In this case the answer was installing a portable bridge solution that allows them to easily cross the river and in this case is also capable of supporting the heavy equipment commonly found on a farm.

Here’s what that answer looked like!

To find out more be sure to check out our videos, ERE S80T Bridge Install or visit us on our YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/erelogistics and watch us install the bridge!

Winter Bridging – Temporary Bridge For Fire Management

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ERE Logistics just took on a project with Parks Canada to install a temporary bridge for them in Banff National Park. Despite some rather cold weather and some huge delays involving crossing some busy railway tracks the installation was flawless.

The last day of the install we were dealing with -25 Celsius temperatures, but other than slowing down the installation itself, it showed how we can install in everything from desert conditions with extreme heat to Canadian winters with extreme cold.

The final install was a 137 foot bridge which will be left in place for three months to assist in fire management for the Parks people. Once they are finished we will come back in, remove the bridge and other than tire tracks and some over turned stones there will be essentially zero impact on the environment and nothing left behind.

Just another example of a great use for our portable bridging system. If you would like more information about the ERE S80T Portable bridging system be sure to leave a comment or you can reach us via the About section above.

Aerospace Conference in Kananaskis & The ERE S80T

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It’s finally here, the Aerospace Conference & Industry Trade Show at the Delta Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta starts today at 2:00 (Oct 12th, 2010) and runs until Thursday October 14th.

This years focus is on “Strategies for Success” and Richard Richter (President of ERE Logistics) will be one of the presenters Wednesday October 13th at 11:00.

The organizers also asked Richard to bring one of his portable scissor bridges along which has been set up outside the hotel. Here are some of the pictures to give you an idea.

This will be a great opportunity for anyone interested in finding out more about dealing with the Defence Industry in Canada or anyone looking for more information about ERE Logistics and their portable bridge systems.

This last picture shows a section of the bridge with the new hand rails added for foot traffic. This has been an excellent addition and helps make our product even more suitable for emergency bridging solutions.

The ERE S80T Is Also Great For the Environment!

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With saving our environment becoming more of a priority in everyone’s eyes, once again the ERE Logistics portable scissor bridge system comes to the rescue. Our design leaves almost a zero footprint when we use a single span to cross an area.

Below is a quote from Richard Richter President of ERE Logistics:

“If you’re using a single span of 40 feet or less, the impact is zero – you don’t even know we were there. You’ll see tire tracks going to the crossing, and then there’s tire tracks on the other side…If it’s over 40 feet, we have to put the support legs down, but that’s maybe 10 percent of the disturbance of walking a backhoe COMPARABLE through it – the leg comes in contact with the bottom and kicks up some sediment, and that’s all.”

It gets even better, since you aren’t making an impact on the environment, you also save the costs normally associated with the cleanup after the fact. Often this is overlooked when looking at the initial costs, but definitely becomes an issue when looking at the big picture.

To find out more about the ERE S80T portable scissor bridge system and to find out how we can help you get to where you need to go, give us a call at 403-369-0144 today or you can reach us via email at info@erelogistics.com