Confederation Bridge
General Information
| Structural Type: |
Single-cell prestressed concrete box girder bridge
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge
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| Construction method: |
Segmental construction
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| Other name(s): | Pont de la Confédération |
| Built: | 1994 - 1997 |
| Status: | in use |
Geographic Information & Related Structures
| Location: |
Port Borden, Prince Edward Island, Canada, North America Cape Tormentine, New Brunswick, Canada, North America |
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Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 250 m | |
| total length | 12.9 km | |
| number of spans | 14 + 44 + 7 | |
| height above valley floor or water | max 60 m | |
| deck | deck depth | 4.5 - 14 m |
| deck width | 11 m |
Materials
| deck |
precast prestressed concrete
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| piers |
precast reinforced concrete
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Participants
Owner
Client
Structural engineering
Checking engineering
Co-contractor
Prestressing
Relevant Web Sites
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Bridge Pros: Confederation Bridge
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Confederation Bridge / Pont de la Confédération
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Great Structures of the World: Confederation Bridge
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JMI: Viaduc Confédération - Canada
Relevant Publications
- Naming the date, in "Bridge Design & Engineering", August 1996, n. 4 v. 2
- High-performance Concrete (1st edition), E & FN SPON, London (United Kingdom), ISBN 0419192700, 1998
- Béton haute performance, Eyrolles, Paris (France), ISBN 221201323X, 2001
- Bridging Islands, Acorn Press, Canada (Canada), ISBN 1-894838-24-6
- Eine feste Verbindung zwischen den kanadischen Provinzen New Brunswick und Prince Edward Island: Das Northumberland Strait Crossing Project (II), in "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau", November 1996, n. 11 v. 91
- Eine feste Verbindung zwischen den kanadischen Provinzen New Brunswick und Prince Edward Island: Das Northumberland Strait Crossing Project (I), in "Beton- und Stahlbetonbau", October 1996, n. 10 v. 91
- «Svanen» revue et corrigée, in "Travaux", July - August 1996, n. 722
- Le pont de l'île du Prince-Edouard, in "Travaux", July - August 1996, n. 722
- Le pont de la Confédération (Île du Prince-Édouard - Canada), presented at La Technique française du béton, XIIIe congrès de la FIB, Amsterdam 1998.
- Le pont de la Confédération, presented at .
- Northumberland Strait Bridge, in "VSL News", 1995, n. 2 v. 6
- Brücken, Könemann, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3829004095, 1998; pp. 108-109
- Bridges, Black Dog & Leventhal, New York (USA), ISBN 1884822754, 1997; pp. 108-109
- Les ponts, Könemann, Cologne (Germany), ISBN 3829004109; pp. 108-109
- The Northumberland Strait Crossing project, presented at Interaction between Major Engineering Structures and the Marine Environment, IABSE Colloquium, Nyborg, 1991.
- Northumberland's Ice Breaker, in "Civil Engineering Magazine", January 1997, n. 1 v. 67
- 150 Jahre Stahlbeton (1848-1998), in "Bautechnik", 1999; pp. 38-39
- Synthèse des travaux du projet national BHP 2000 sur les bétons à hautes performances, Presses de l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris (France), ISBN 285978408X, 2005
- The Confederation Bridge, Canada, presented at Foundations for major bridges, IABSE Colloquium, New Delhi, India 1999.
- Brückenpfeiler der Northumberland Überquerung in Kanada in Fertigteilbauweise, in "Bauingenieur", 1997 v. 72
- Brücke der Northumberland Überquerung in Kanada in Segmentbauweise, in "Bauingenieur", 1997, n. 9 v. 72
- Progressive Collapse Study of a Multiple-Span Bridge, in "Structural Engineering International", May 1999, n. 2 v. 9
Internal Information
| Structure-ID: | s0000578 |
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| Created: | 11/09/2000 |
| Last Updated: | 05/03/2013 |