© Daniel KarlssonØresund Bridge 2000
Øresund Bridge 2000
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Øresund Bridge
Linking Sweden and Denmark
Key Facts
Motorway and railway bridge
Part of a 16km crossing via the bridge, artificial island and tunnel
Location
Malmo (Sweden) to Copenhagen (Denmark)
Across the Øresund Strait
Designers and Consulting Engineers
Ove Arup & Partners
COWI
Gimsing & Madsen
ISC Consulting Engineers
Setec TPI
Description
Cable-stayed bridge with harp system
490m longest span
7,845m total length
Main contractors
A joint venture of HOCHTIEF, Højgaard & Schultz, Monberg & Thorsen, and Skanska
Construction
Began in 1995
Opened 1 July 2000
The Bridge
The Øresund Bridge links Malmö in Sweden with Copenhagen in Denmark, across the Øresund strait. It is an 8km railway and four-lane motorway bridge from the Swedish coast to the artificial island of Peberholm. The bridge is mostly a viaduct with concrete piers every 140m, but it has a 490m cable-stayed main span towards the centre. Trains run on the lower deck and vehicles on the upper deck.
A 4-kilometre immersed tube tunnel runs from Peberholm to Amager, Denmark to complete the crossing. The tunnel is constructed from 20 prefabricated reinforced concrete segments placed in a trench dug in the seabed.
The bridge has significantly increased travel across the Øresund, cut journey times and links the road and rail networks of the Scandinavian Peninsula with those of Western Europe.
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