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EB100 Expeditionary Bridge: British Army puts next-neneration crossing system through its paces In early May 2026, soldiers from the British Army gathered at a training area to conduct field trials of the EB100 — a modular expeditionary bridging system designed for rapid deployment in contested and austere environments. Over several days of intensive construction and testing, […]

In a landmark moment for British engineering innovation, Dr. Stephen Bright PhD BEng CEng MICE FInstRE — the inventor of EasiBridge® and Technical Director at BANAIR — submitted a formal briefing paper to the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Journal, one of the most prestigious civil engineering publications in the world. Titled “Portable Bridging for

In 2024, EasiBridge demonstrated its EB100 Vehicle Bridge capability at a major event in Birmingham — one of the most significant public demonstrations of the system’s vehicle bridge capacity to date. The announcement confirmed a capability that redefines portable military and emergency bridging: 100-foot (30-metre) vehicle bridges, transportable in light trailers. The Facebook post captured

Innovate UK Awards £168,767 for EasiBridge Vehicle Bridge Development — EB100 Programme Confirmed UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Gateway to Research records confirm that Innovate UK awarded £168,767 to Bright Structures Limited and Dr. Stephen Bright for the project “EASIBridge: Ultra-Compact 4-Person Launchable Space-Frame Vehicle Bridge” — a Collaborative R&D programme running from June 2022

April 2024 saw EasiBridge’s most significant product launch since the original LADX range — two entirely new systems announced simultaneously: the EasiBridge 1st Response Bridge and the UrbanHD ladder system. The 1st Response Bridge is a dedicated emergency services and humanitarian deployment variant providing a full 100-foot (30-metre) span for personnel or light vehicle crossing.

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

The influential UK defence analysis platform Think Defence — which had first featured EasiBridge in its landmark 2018 article — returned to the system in a new piece titled “The Adaptable Load Carrier.” The article explored options for infantry load carriage and logistics innovation, and used EasiBridge as a prime example of the kind of

In 2023, EasiBridge returned to the British Army’s Army Warfighting Experiment — six years after its first appearance at AWE 2017 that launched the system into the military mainstream. AWE 2023 continued to develop EasiBridge’s relationship with British Army capability development teams and demonstrated how far the system had evolved since those first trials on

In August 2023, the French Army conducted formal prototype trials of the EasiBridge® Infantry Assault Bridge — marking the system’s first evaluation by a major Continental European military force and confirmation of growing NATO-wide interest in the world’s lightest man-portable long-span bridging system. The French Army trial followed a trajectory that will be familiar to

In August 2023, EasiBridge® made one of its most significant announcements since the BANAIR acquisition — the commercial launch of its new “Bridge-in-a-Bag” Infantry Assault Bridge range, with French Army prototype trials confirmed for the same month and full commercial availability from September 2023. The Facebook announcement confirmed the key details: “Delighted to introduce our