CASE STUDY Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a private golf course community looked to replace five pedestrian bridges. The timber bridges interconnected multiple isles to form a long network of walkable area for pedestrians over a large lake. The main cause for replacement of the original bridges was due to the ongoing and labor-intensive process of painting and staining the structures. During the design and material selection stage of the project, the owners of the community prioritized a long-term solution to ensure decades of maintenance-free operations on each of the five connect- ing bridges. With this in mind, they worked with the designers at Areté Engineers to balance the community design specifications and func- tional needs of the property. In th

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