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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