In January 2024, two of the world’s most respected design and innovation platforms discovered EasiBridge — and the response confirmed that the system’s appeal extends far beyond military procurement circles.

On 18 January 2024, Core77 — the industrial design platform read by over 240,000 designers, engineers and product innovators worldwide — published “Clever Design for a Portable Inverted Suspension Bridge,” written by staff writer Rain Noe. The article described EasiBridge as “a suspension bridge flipped upside down” and explained the cantilever inversion technique to a design-savvy civilian audience for the first time. It highlighted the elegance of the EasiLock system, the Bridge-in-a-Bag portability concept, and confirmed the BANAIR acquisition and Dr. Bright’s appointment as Technical Director.

One day earlier, on 17 January 2024, The Awesomer — a popular product and innovation discovery platform — published “A Portable Bridge Built from Ladders,” describing EasiBridge as a system that “can span up to 18 meters (59 feet) and be deployed by a single person.” The Awesomer reaches a broad consumer and technology-enthusiast audience, extending EasiBridge’s visibility into entirely new communities.

For anyone searching for portable ladder bridge systems, man-portable modular bridges, innovative military engineering equipment, or rapid deployment crossing solutions, the dual January 2024 coverage by Core77 and The Awesomer placed EasiBridge in front of a combined global audience of millions — the widest civilian reach the system had ever achieved.

 

 

Dr. Stephen Bright is a British bridge engineer with a PhD in Lightweight Bridge Decks. After years of working on road, railway and foot bridges, he designed this ingenious EasiBridge, a portable crossing system. It’s essentially a suspension bridge flipped upside down:

“EasiBridge uses 1.5m long, optimised ladder sections with a bespoke (EasiLock) jointing system to ensure no loss of strength or stiffness at multiple section joints. Combined with a rope-stiffening system, telescopic masts and variable tensioning elements, EasiBridge structures are half the weight and treble the span of incumbent systems.”

 

“Simple short spans, up to 6m, can be formed from plain ladder sections with just three sets of EasiLock joints.”

– All EasiBridge structures are man-portable; a 12m bridge can be transported by a single person, 18m bridges transported by just 2 personnel

– 18m bridges can be installed and crossed by a single person in under 20 seconds, with no prior access to the far bank

– Bridges are “launched” into place using a Patented cantilever launch/inversion technique

– Installation is completed entirely from the home bank and in near silence

– Bridges can be recovered and extracted for re-use as quickly as they are installed.

The design can also be scaled up and made into something more robust:

 

 

After five years of development, Bright’s invention was acquired by military equipment manufacturer Ban-Air, and Bright was hired by the company as Technical Director. The product has been re-branded LADX.

By Rain Noe – January 18, 2024 in Tools & Craft