Laycock Park Pedestrian Bridge

The City of Calgary’s Laycock Park Pedestrian Bridge in Alberta, Canada, features two 37-meter (121 foot) glulam girders made of Alaskan Yellow Cedar. The bridge replaces one that partially washed away during a flood, reconnects the city’s north-south regional pathway, and creates neighborhood access to the parking lot. The bridge provides an aesthetically pleasing, elegant, robust, innovative, economical, durable, maintainable, and sustainable structure. 

The bridge, which features durable Alaskan Yellow Cedar (AYC) glulam girders that pushed the limits of design and fabrication possibilities at 37-metres long without splices, has a pedestrian and eco-friendly coating system and the first example of a proprietary Glass-Fibre-Reinforced Polymer – wrapped black spruce glulam timber pedestrian bridge deck, coated with a proprietary wearing course system, in Calgary. Harvested from regional renewable resources, AYC provides the required strength, stability, and service-life for the bridge girders and demonstrates the usability of timber as a modern, efficient, and elegant sustainable cold climate bridge construction material.