Moses Bridge - The Invisible Bridge Made With Accoya® Wood

One renowned architecture today is Fort De Roovere, or commonly known to many as the Moses Bridge. The Moses Bridge is one of the 12 finalists of Design Museum's Design Awards 2012, "the Oscar of the design world". The uniqueness about this Dutch tourist attraction is that it is built under water and completely made of wood with foil. Accoya® wood is selected for this architectural project. 

Accoya® wood is tested and proven to have very high water resistance and therefore, it is suitable for any construction that have constant contact with water such as bridges, marina decking, canal linings and such. 

Unlike common outdoor decking materials, Accoya® has class 1 durability that makes the wood stable during changing weather conditions or temperature and humidity changes. Common decking wood such as Chengal and Teak has class 2  This hence, gives wood lovers architects more room to play with their designing skills as they can use Accoya® in any type of complex indoor or outdoor woodwork construction.

Due to its high durability and strong dimensional stability, Accoya® wood is therefore recommended for tropical climatic countries such as Singapore and Malaysia. In fact, some architects in Singapore has used Accoya® in making outdoor designer furniture thus proving it's optimal resistance to rain and shine weather conditions of Singapore.

The Moses Bridge is major breakthrough in the world of architecture today. Before the Moses Bridge, it is never possible to construct that kind of architecture completely with wood. But with Accoya®, anything is impossible. Who knows someday we might also see some water related wooden architecture in Singapore as well.