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Structure-ID: s0006023

Created on: 10/06/02

Modified on: 05/10/05

Puente Centenario
Panama Canal Second Crossing Bridge

Completed in:	2004
Status:	in use
Location:	Panama
Crosses:	Panama Canal

Completed Puente Centenario (Panama Canal Second Crossing) from the East Shore of the Bridge

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Structural Type:

Cable-stayed bridge

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Persons involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
Role	Name	Part of structure

Architect	Miguel Rosales

Firms, offices, etc. involved with this structure
Legend: Phase of works
Role	Name	Part of structure

	COWI Consulting Engineers and Planners AS
Owner	Ministerio de Obras Públicas (Panamá)
Design	T. Y. Lin International
Structural engineering	Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner
Construction engineers	Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner
Contractor	Bilfinger Berger AG
Stay cables	Freyssinet International
Stay cable steel supplier	Trenzas y Cables de Acero PSC, S.L.

Technical information
	Description	Value
Construction materials used
deck	concrete
pylons	concrete
Dimensions

	total length	1 052 m
deck	deck width	34.30 m
main bridge	main span	420 m
	number of cables	128
	length of main bridge	820 m
	number of lanes	2 x 3
Quantities used in construction

	steel for cable-stays	1 320 t

Chronology

3 July 2004

Final pour closes the deck.

15 August 2004

Expected opening.

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	Ministerio de Obras Públicas: Imagenes del Puente Centenario

Relevant Literature
	Entre deux Amériques, in "Sols et Structures", 2004, n. 220 .
	Freyssinet cable-stayed structures, Freyssinet International, Vélizy-Villacoublay (France) , 2004; pp. 73.
	Panama's kingsize lift, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", 3rd Quarter 2004, n. 36 v. 10 .
	Bundesingenieurkammer Ingenieurbaukunst in Deutschland, Junius Verlag GmbH, Hamburg (Germany) , ISBN 3885065630, 2005; pp. 66-71.
	Humpf, Karl Cable-stayed Bridges across the Panama Canal and the Orinoco, presented at Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, IABSE Symposium, Weimar, 19-21.09.2007.
	Humpf, Karl Flying pace, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", 2nd Quarter 2004, n. 35 v. 10 .
	Saul, Reiner Die zweite Brücke über den Panamakanal - eine Schrägkabelbrücke mit 420 m Mittelöffnung und Rekordbauzeit, in "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau", March 2005, n. 3 v. 100 .

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