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Project
Great Belt Fixed Link, substructure (Denmark).
Contractor:
Great Belt Contractors (GBC).
Traineeship
02/1994 – 08/1994
Value:
€360.000.000,-
In 1994 I worked
as a trainee on this project. The traineeship was part of my Bachelor in Civil
Engineering at the
Hogeschool van
Utrecht, Faculty of Nature and Science. For a period of 7 months I lived in
Korsør, Denmark.
At that time the Great Belt Suspension Bridge was the largest project under construction in Europe and the bridge itself was on
it's way to set a new world record as the longest suspension bridge ever constructed at that moment time, with a free span of no less than 1,624m!.
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facts
& figures:
Built: 1991 - 1998
Location: Between the islands of Funen and Zealand, Korsør, Vestsjælland,
Denmark
Structural Type: Suspension bridge
gravity-anchored
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Role
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Name
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Part of
structure
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Owner
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Sund &
Baelt Holding A/S
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Design
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COWI
Consulting Engineers and Planners AS
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Sub- and
superstructure
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Architectural
design
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Dissing+Weitling
arkitektfirma a/s
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Sub- and
superstructure
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Wind
tunnel testing
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Danish Maritime
Institute
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Superstructure
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Consultant
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Ben C. Gerwick Inc.
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Substructure
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Construction
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Hochtief GmbH
Hollandse Beton
& Waterbouw BV
Ways &
Freytag AG
KKS A.S.
E. Pihl &
Søn A.S.
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Substructure
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Formwork
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STREIF Baulogistik GmbH
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Substructure
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Technical
information
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Part of
structure
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Description
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Value
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Construction materials used
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Cables
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steel
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18.648
wires of ø5mm
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Deck
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steel
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57 sections
of 1,000 tonnes each.
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Pylons,
anchor blocks and approach span piers
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reinforced
concrete
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250,000 m3 of concrete
38,000 tonnes
of rebar
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Dimensions
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main span
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1,624 m
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pylon height
total length
of Great Belt East Bridge
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254 m
6.8 km
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total length
of bridgepart
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2,694 m
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span
lengths (anchorblock-pylon-pylon-ancherblock)
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535 m - 1,624 m - 535 m
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number of
cables
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2
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length of
eastern approach viaduct
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2,529 m
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length of
western approach viaduct
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1,567 m
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span
lengths of eastern approach viaduct
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73 m - 12 x 193 m - 140 m
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span
lengths of western approach viaduct
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143 m - 7 x 193 m - 73 m
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