Andy Marginson

Head of Bridges, North

Contact Andy Marginson

T: +44 7918 615 125

Andy is a Director for Ramboll, responsible for the preparation of detailed designs and documentation, programming works, allocating resources to tasks and overall Project Management of various schemes.

After joining Ramboll (then Gifford) as a Graduate Engineer in 1987, Andy’s career progressed to Principal engineer in 2005, Associate in 2007 and Director in 2014.

He is responsible for supervision of design engineers and technicians, monitoring resource and programme, preparation of Risk Assessments, and ensuring the design proposals comply with the CDM regulations.

Andy is principally involved in the design, construction, assessment and repair of bridges, and has worked on several major schemes including:

• Dee Crossing, a post tensioned cable stayed bridge in North Wales
• Boyne River Bridge, a steel cable stayed bridge in Ireland
• Tender design of the Rambler Channel Railway Viaduct in Hong Kong, and
• Tender design for the Arklow Bypass River Bridge in Ireland
• Celtic Gateway
• Foryd Harbour Bridge
• Mersey Gateway
• Sealand Rail Bridge

His work on feasibility studies for new schemes includes a replacement for Britannia Bridge in North Wales, and the initial conceptual designs of the different options for the Mersey Gateway Bridge prior to route selection.

Recent projects

The Mersey Gateway completed. Image courtesy of Merseylink

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The Mersey Gateway

It is a new six-lane cable-stayed tolled bridge across the Mersey Estuary between Runcorn and Widnes. The central feature of the significant highway improvements between the M56 and Speke Road. 

Llantysilio Chainbridge restoration

Thought to contain the oldest wrought iron chain links in the world, this bridge project has transformed a derelict and unsafe site into a safe, functional structure that is a major tourist attraction.