- Amount spent on Hammersmith Bridge maintenance and monitoring since (and including) 2010. Please break this information down by year. - Details of annual payments made to engineering firms, construction companies or architects in relation to Hammersmith Bridge since (and including) 2010..

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TfL Ref: FOI-1188-2021

Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 25 September 2020.

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- Amount spent on Hammersmith Bridge maintenance and monitoring since (and including) 2010. Please break this information down by year.

Please note that the LB Hammersmith & Fulham is the owner and highway authority for Hammersmith Bridge and we do not hold details of any expenditure they have incurred on the bridge.  However, we have been supporting the LB Hammersmith & Fulham for a number of years in developing refurbishment plans for the bridge and, in total, have spent £16.7m on assessments, feasibility, inspections and surveys, designs and other matters.  A breakdown is provided in the table below:

	Amount (£m)	Reason
2007/08	£0.08	Assessment
2008/09	£0.13	Assessment
2010/11	£0.15	Investigation of weight limit enforcement and barrier/width restriction enhancement/improvements
2011/12	£0.34	Barrier/width restriction enhancement/improvements
2014/15	£0.20	Panels design
2015/16	£0.55	Reactive deck panel replacement
2016/17	£0.79	Reactive deck panel replacement / Pathway Stage 1 – Outcome definition, surveys and data collection
2017/18	£1.02	Pathway Stage 2 – Feasibility of options for repairing the bridge
2018/19	£1.70	Pathway Stage 2 – Feasibility of options for repairing the bridge
2019/20	£5.80	Pathway Stage 3 - Concept design for main bridge, investigation and early works on pedestals, design of temporary bridge and ongoing monitoring and inspections.
2020/21	£5.90	Pathway Stage 3 - Concept design for main bridge, detailed design for stabilisation works to make the bridge safe for the mainworks, investigation and early works on pedestals, concept design of temporary bridge and ongoing monitoring and inspections.

- Details of annual payments made to engineering firms, construction companies or architects in relation to Hammersmith Bridge since (and including) 2010.

As highlighted above, we do not have details of any payments made by the LB Hammersmith & Fulham. However, since taking responsibility for developing the designs for refurbishing the bridge in 2019/20, we have made the following payments to engineering firms and contractors working for us:

External Contracts	Activities	VOWD from P3 19/20 up to P7 20/21
Atkins	Responsible for Cat 2 and Cat 3 checks on mechanical equipment, structure, etc	£ 380,000
Mott MacDonald	Feasibility, surveys, monitoring, options assessment and technical approvals	£ 1,268,687
Pell Frischmann	Concept design for the Hammersmith Bridge strengthening and temporary bridge, together with detailed design for stabilisation works, planning and environmental assessments	£ 1,731,629
Costain	Construction and contracting advice for the main bridge works and temporary bridge	£ 786,559
Kier	Early investigative works to the bridge pedestals.	£ 3,438,064

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