Queensferry Crossing
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Europe
Completed · Transport · Cable-Stayed Bridge · Temperate · 2017
The world's longest three-tower cable-stayed bridge (2.7 km), designed with crossing cables between towers that form a structural web stabilising the deck against wind — eliminating the need for the aerodynamic stiffening typically required at this span.
Innovation highlights
- world's longest three-tower cable-stayed bridge at completion
- inter-tower cable web provides aerodynamic and structural stability without stiffening deck
- first bridge to use this crossed cable configuration at this scale
- integrated anti-icing system using glycol in hollow stay cables
- Client / Developer
- Transport Scotland
- Architect
- Jacobs / Arup (design team)
- Engineer
- Arup / Jacobs
- Type
- Cable-Stayed Bridge
#cable-stayed bridge #structural innovation #infrastructure #Scotland #wind engineering
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