The Øresund Bridge is part of the international fixed link currently under construction across the sound separating Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and Malmö, the third-largest city in Sweden. The link, scheduled to open in 2000, is a toll-funded motorway and railway crossing. The 15.8-km coast-to-coast part of the link consists of a 0.5-km artificial peninsula at Copenhagen Airport, a 3.5-km immersed concrete tunnel, a 4-km artificial island, and a 7.8-km bridge. The bridge includes as its central section a 1.1-km cable-stayed bridge. The 490-m main span crosses the international shipping lane Flintrännan with 57-m minimum headroom and on completion will be the longest span of any cable-stayed bridge in the world carrying both road and railway traffic. Approach spans leading up to the cable-stayed bridge are typically 140 m. The owner of the link is Øresundskonsortiet, a company jointly and equally owned by the Danish and Swedish states responsible for financing, planning, implementing, and operating the link. ASO Group is the owner’s bridge consultant responsible for the concept, the technical documentation, and for monitoring and auditing the construction of the bridge. Described are the background and strategy in procuring this major international infrastructure project and the development of the bridge design from design competition to construction.
1 2 3 4 In late 1999 the Highways Department of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region issued an open invitation to bridge designers to pre-qualify for a design competition for a road bridge across the entrance to the Kwai Chung container port. The bridge would have a span of at least 1000 m with a vertical clearance of at least 73?5 m over the full 900 m navigation channel. The purpose of the competition was to establish a reference scheme to be used as the basis for the detailed design for Stonecutters Bridge. The design competition aimed at securing a world-class design which would also be a fitting landmark and gateway for the port underlining and promoting the image of Hong Kong as a vibrant and important centre of international trade. The competition took place in early 2000 and this paper describes some of the background choosing this approach and the reasoning behind the selection of the prize-winning proposals.
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