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It is new and groundbreaking once it is discovered/used by the UK, never mind that the stuff is used in continental Europe for decades.


I don't feel like the downvotes are justified. Composite structures using FRP is hardly new or novel.

A quick search on Google Scholar showed up this article on FRP footbridges, which mentions that the first FRP footbridge in the Netherlands was constructed in 1995.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209580991...




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