Rome Design Awards Silver

2025

Manned bridge inspection vehicle

Entrant Company

Hebei Baoli Engineering Equipment Co., Ltd; Shijiazhuang University

Category

Product Design - Heavy Machinery

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

The manned bridge inspection vehicle integrates technological aesthetics with intelligent functions. The innovative design breaks away from the traditional single-plane form of bridge inspection vehicles to create a three-dimensional and technological shape through points, lines, and surfaces. Silver metallic is chosen as a primary color, complemented by the company's signature blue as an accent, and paired with a heavy-metal-colored pedestrian walkway. This forms a distinct visual hierarchy with light-dark contrast, enhancing visual impact while maintaining the brand's family style.

The vehicle adopts a square tube aluminum alloy structure design, combining easy installation with high strength and stability, effectively resisting vibration and corrosion, and adapting to extreme temperature environments. It integrates active and passive traveling mechanism, truss structure, anti-fall device, power unit, and electrical control system. Equipped with a PLC automatic control system, it features highly reliable self-locking and multiple limit protection functions, ensuring operational safety and reliability under complex working conditions. The traveling mechanism supports dual drive modes, both motor and manual, allowing movement even during sudden power outages and demonstrating excellent emergency handling capability. The operating method, suspended under the beam, enables flexible longitudinal travel along the bridge, achieving comprehensive, dead-angle-free inspection of the beam bottom structure and significantly improving inspection accuracy and coverage.

The product combines new materials, new processes, and optimized structural design, enhancing overall performance while effectively controlling costs. Through scientific structural design and humanized detailing, it perfectly integrates internal functions with external styling, eliminating the coldness of machinery while significantly enhancing the product's sense of quality. While promoting the progress of industrial design in bridge inspection vehicles, it provides a safe, reliable inspection and maintenance solution for large steel structure bridges with low life cycle costs.

Credits

Designer
Jianlin Zhao
Designer
Zhi Tian
Designer
Hongping Zhu
Designer
Jun Bao
Designer
Jianxun Wang
Designer
Qinghao Zhang
Designer
Yangguang Zhang
Designer
Xueshan Li
Designer
Yan Niu
Designer
Yun Li
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