Bicentenary pedestrian bridge

Product: Pedestrian bridge

Location: Zarahoza
Brief description: Pedestrian bridge in the 2008 Universal Exposition of Zaragoza
Design Engineer: Luis Javier Sanz
Steel Constructor:
Cidect member: Grupo CONDESA

Details:
Due to the celebration of the 2008 Universal Exposition in Zaragoza (Spain) a green path
was designed in order to connect the city of Zaragoza with the Environmental Interpretation
Centre in the village of La Alfranca. This green path goes along the Ebro river until the
village of La Cartuja, where the path has to cross the river. To achieve this (the distance
between riversides is 180m), a steel pedestrian bridge has been designed in five different
isometric splices (22,50m + 3x45m + 22,50m).
The footbridge concept is based on the use of double bent tubular elements generating a
virtual cylinder with a wooden floor inside. This cylinder has a diameter of 5,60 meters and
its surface is created by four helixes spinning clockwise and another four helixes spinning
anti-clockwise. In the upper side of the cylinder a longitudinal CHS is located as a support for
the helixes.

Greenside Place Bridge Link

Location: Leith Street, Edinburgh

Brief description:

Awarding authority: Coal Pension Properties

Completion: 2004

Architect: Broadway Malyan

Steel Constructor: Westbury Structures Ltd

Cidect member: Corus Tubes

Details:

The bridge is a steel structure of innovative helical form compromising of an open

aluminium and glass walkway passing through the helical tubular steel structure and
supported on raking tubular steel columns.

The bridge is a freestanding structure spanning 50 metres with an unusual S-shape in

plan.In cross section the steel helix forms and ellipse with a width of 0.5m and a height of
4.0m.The main steelwork comprises of curved 139.7 x 10 Circular Hollow section (CHS)
spiralling around six longitudinal 193.7 x 16 CHS located in the top and bottom of the
bridge cross section.The bridge is supported by splayed legs of 457 x 25 CHS springing
from concrete plinths on either side of the dual carriageway road.All Circular Hollow
Section steelwork is hot finished, grade S355J2H.
Igualada Pedestrian Bridge

Location: Igualada (BARCELONA)

Brief description: Pedestrian bridge to connect two neighborhoods in Barcelona
Architect: Enric Xercavins
Contractor: Emcofa, S.A.
Steel Constructor: Estrucad, S.A.
Cidect member: Grupo CONDESA

Details:
This structure was design to connect two neighborhoods in Igualada (Barcelona), one of them
quite old, built in the sixties, and the other one currently created.
The main problem was the great difference between their heights, since the new neighborhood
is 25 meters above the old one. This feature defines the project itself.
In this way, a lift is designed inside the concrete U-shaped core which is working to a
combination of compression and bending. The free side of this core is braced with horizontal
elements at sight through the glass faade cladding.
The footbridge is non-symmetrical, with a lateral cantilever of 2,90m, a width of 3,15m
between the chords of the vertical lattice girders and another cantilever of 1,40m. A set of four
K-lattice girders forming a square cross-section has been designed. This girder begins in the
concrete core and finishes rigidly supported over a steel circular column of 1m height.

M60 Footbridges, Junctions 5 to 8

Location: M60, Manchester

Brief description: M60 junctions 5 to 8 widening footbridges

Awarding authority: Highways Agency

Completion: November 2004

Architect: Halcrow

Steel Constructor: Nusteel

Cidect member: Corus Tubes

Details:

3 footbridges:

Dunmow walk 56 metres Bow Arch footbridge

Mersey Valley 100 metres Span Only Cable Stay

Salewater Park 100 metres Cable Stay with Ramps and Stairs

Nesenbachtal bridge
Location: Stuttgart, Germany

Brief description: New construction: 151 m long viaduct

Awarding City of Stuttgart, Technical Department - Civil Engineering

authority: Office

Completion: September 1999

Architect:

Steel Constructor:

Cidect member: V & M DEUTSCHLAND GmbH

Details:
A two-storey deck means that pedestrians and vehicles are on two different levels. With its
filigree design based on steel tree-like columns, the bridge blends harmoniously with its
environment. V & M supplier part: 200 t circular MSH sections with 193.7 and 323.9 mm
outside diameters, wall thickness from 10 to 70 mm, material: S 355 J2H.

Pedestrian bridge of the Science Museum over the Pisuerga river

Location: Valladolid

Brief Pedestrian bridge for the conection of two borders of Pisuerga

description: river (234m aprox.) in front of de Science Museum

Awarding
Aguas del Duero, S.A.
authority:

Architect:

Contractor: Megusa

Cidect
Grupo CONDESA
member:

Details:
The Science Museum pedestrian bridge, of aproximately 234m, over the Pisuerga river is part
of a global project affecting both banks of this river which flows through the city of
Valladolid. It connects the left bank where the old part of the city is to be found with the new
city where the Science Museum has recently been built.
The pedestrian bridge which resembles a wicker basket increases the feeling of ligthness of
the structure. The metallic structure is made up of a spatial tubular lattice girder with an
hexagonal cross-section that in the main span, is located inside another lattice girder made of
pre-stressed longitudinal and tranversal stays Both lattice girders are jointed through tubular
elements allowing the stays to mantain their shape and increase their excentricity in the mid
span.

River Tawe South Bridge

Location: Mouth of River Tawe, Swansea

Brief description: Bridge over River Tawe

Awarding authority: Welsh Development Agency

Completion: 2003

Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Flint & Neill Partnership

Steel Constructor: Rowecord Engineering Ltd, Newport

Cidect member: Corus Tubes

Details:

Top/Bottom Chords: 300 x 300 x 16 SHS, 321 metres

CHS bracing 237 x 16, 27 metres

219 x 12.5, 32 metres

114.3 x 3.6, 65 metres

All grade S355J2H

St Paul`s footbridge
Location: Cwm in Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent
Footbridge spanning the Newport to Ebbw railway line and the new Cwm
Brief description:
Relief Road
Awarding
Blaenau Gwent Borough Council
authority:
Completion: 2004
Architect: Andrew Rowe
Steel Constructor: Rowecord Engineering
Cidect member: Corus Tubes

Details:
70 m long footbridge has a span of 35 m and a 30 m mast set at an angle against the
valley hillside.The maximum gradient of the bridge was determined by the levels of the
land, and a stepped ramp leads to it from the lower level on the west side.

Viaduct Lully
Location: Lully, Switzerland
Brief description: Construction of a 1 km long viaduct near Lully
Awarding authority: Bureau des Autoroutes de Fribourg
Completion: 2000
Architect: H.-G. Dauner, Dauner Ingenieur Conseils S.A., Aigle, Schweiz
Steel Constructor: Zwahlen & Mayr S.A., Aigle, Schweiz
Cidect member: V & M DEUTSCHLAND GmbH

Details:
The road surface of the motorway is supported by a construction consisting of circular MSH
sections. Total length 964 m, width 2 x 13.53 m, span of the central span 42.75 m. V & M
supplier part: 2,700 t circular MSH sections.