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Stonecutters Bridge 2009
Stonecutters Bridge
One of the world's longest cable-stayed bridges.
Key Facts
Three-lane motorway
Twin-box bridge deck
Location
Hong Kong, China
Between Tsing Yi, and Kowloon City
Across the Rambler Channel
Consulting Engineers
ARUP
COWI
Halcrow
Description
Cable-stayed suspension bridge
1,018m main span
1,596m total length
Main contractors
Joint venture comprising:
Hitachi, HCC, Yokogawa, Maeda
Construction
Began in 2004
Opened 20 December 2009
The Bridge
Bill Brown would have been delighted to have seen the opening of the Stonecutters Bridge in Hong Kong. His twin-box deck innovation that he developed for the proposed Çanakkale Dardanelles Bridge and Messina Crossing in the 1990s would be used in this project. He first revealed it at an IABSE conference in 1996. Achieving aerodynamic stability of the bridge deck occupied Bill’s engineering mind for decades. Using the central gap to dissipate wind pressure would be vital in this region of occasional typhoons.
The cable-stayed bridge has two 290m-tall towers, one tower on Stonecutters Island and one on Tsing Yi. It has a 1,018m central span, with a 53m-wide steel deck of two streamlined boxes, connected by cross girders.
It improves links from the international airport to Kowloon and access to the container port at Kwai Chung.
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