EN109 – Gala bridge substitution



CONCEPTUAL DESIGN / SERVICES CARRIED OUT

The deck is a pre-stress concrete box girder, with four spans of 60 m.
The box girder have 7,5 m of width between the webs and is executed in a initial phase with 10,5 m of the superior slab. The superior slab is then extended in a second phase to 28,2 m, using inclined concrete pre-fabricated struts, 4,0 m spaced in the longitudinal direction.
The first phase of the cross-section (box girder) was executed by incremental launching using a steel nose and the second phase of the deck was executed with a moving gantry.

LOCATION

Figueira da Foz, Portugal

SERVICE DATE

2008

GENERAL FEATURES

Length: 240 m
Main span: 60 m
Width: 28,20 m