A ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for Sunday evening at Beaverbrook Park, where residents will soon walk across a pedestrian bridge unlike any other in the United States.
The nearly 7,000-pound bridge was built from a wind turbine blade repurposed from a Colorado wind farm. The project was led by Jud Ready, executive director of space research at Georgia Tech, who recognized a need for improved access within his neighborhood park.
Ready teamed up with Russell Gentry, a Georgia Tech architecture professor and member of the Re-Wind Network, which studies how decommissioned turbine blades can be reused. Together, they worked with students to design and engineer the structure…