Royal Highland Show – Cow Flyover

The ever popular Royal Highland Show was made a safer and cleaner environment for pedestrians this year with the creation of a bridge for livestock to access the show arena. For many years now the show has suffered from logistical problems as pedestrian areas had to be fenced off while livestock was brought to and from the arena. Visitors to the Royal Highland Show this year were however spared the disruption and the farm yard hazards with the creation of an underpass to separate pedestrians from animals.

Bell Ingram and engineers from Millard Consulting and Alltec Construction, working as a planning and design and construct team, pooled resources to design, certify and build a new pedestrian underpass in time for the show. The late spring was a time of fever pitch activity for the team, with short timescales and the show date looming. All this at a time when Edinburgh City Council Building Standards were snowed under with the Edinburgh Schools debacle.

Our design team produced all the necessary details. From evaluation of ground conditions to compiling certification of contractor designed precast concrete and wing walls to complete certification of the structural design for building warrant in time for the show opening.

The project is one of a series of joint working initiatives between Millard Consulting and Alltec working together with Bell Ingram. A few of the team had the pleasure of attending the show and making use of the new underpass, which was hailed a great success. It was a pleasure to be involved with such a high profile project and have the results of our work noted in the press, where it was proclaimed as a “cow-flyover to tackle human traffic jams”. Thanks to Allan Hunter of Terrier Soil Surveys and Bell Ingram for the use of photographs.