Useful Studio have been shortlisted for the Lower Thames Crossing's low-carbon footbridge design contest with this proposal for a salvaged-steel truss footbridge, championing the principles of lean start, long life and circularity. 

The footbridge design is a delicately robust bridge archetype that is systematically conceived and made: beautiful, long-lasting, quick to build, and economical, with low material use, low carbon, and high social and environmental benefits compared to traditional bridge forms. 

The bridge is designed to be manufactured, not simply constructed, as the product of a high-quality industrial process. This delivers predictable, repeatable, highly accurate and efficient manufacture and erection.

We are sensitive participants in a much wider system: delivering social benefit through the reconnection of communities with employment through the encouragement of local and regional supplier and manufacturers.