Farø Bridge (Vordingborg, 1984)

Farø Bridge

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General Information

Structural Type:	Cable-stayed bridge
Function / usage:	Motorway bridge / freeway bridge
Other name(s):	Farø South Bridge
Built:	1980 - 1984
Status:	in use

Geographic Information & Related Structures

Location:	Vordingborg, Zealand, Denmark, Europe
Crosses	Storström straits
Near	Farö North Bridge (1984)

Technical Information

Dimensions

	main span	290.00 m
	length of side spans	2 x 80.00 m - 2 x 120.00 m
deck	deck depth	3.50 m
deck	deck width	22.40 m
pylon	pylon height	95.10 m

Materials

cables	steel
piers	reinforced concrete
pylons	reinforced concrete

Chronology

1976	Danish Parliament decides to build a motorway section between Ronnede and Sakskøbing passing east of the city of Vordingborg. The highway required two large bridges: the north bridge connecting the island of Zealand to the island of Farö and the south bridge linking Farö to the island of Falster. The north bridge was executed as a 1.5-km long continuous girder bridge and the south bridge as a 1.7-km-viaduct with a cable-stayed main span.

1976

Danish Parliament decides to build a motorway section between Ronnede and Sakskøbing passing east of the city of Vordingborg. The highway required two large bridges: the north bridge connecting the island of Zealand to the island of Farö and the south bridge linking Farö to the island of Falster. The north bridge was executed as a 1.5-km long continuous girder bridge and the south bridge as a 1.7-km-viaduct with a cable-stayed main span.

Participants

E. Villefrance (architect)

Design

COWI Consulting Engineers and Planners AS

Co-contractor

Stay cables

Stahlton AG

Relevant Web Sites

Relevant Publications

Bloomstine, Matthew L. & Stoltzner, Erik The Faroe cable-stayed bridge - Maintenance experience with major components, presented at IABSE Conference, Malmö 1999 - Cable-stayed bridges. Past, present and future.
Levesque, Michel Les fondations du pont de Farö au Danemark, in "Travaux", November 1983, n. 582
Prade, Marcel Les grands ponts du monde: Ponts remarquables d'Europe, Brissaud, Poitiers (France), ISBN 2902170653, 1990; pp. 187-188
Quaranta, Arnaud Le Passage (1^st edition), Everest Communication, Luxembourg (Luxembourg), ISBN 287996976X, 1999; pp. 56-57
Sørensen, Ove & Bloomstine, M. L. & Bitsch, N. & Linneberg, P. Design for movements in bridges, presented at Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, IABSE Symposium, Weimar, 19-21.09.2007.
Torres Arcila, Martha Bridges - Ponts - Brücken, Atrium, Mexico City (Mexico), ISBN 8495692619, 2002; pp. 132-135
Walther, René & Houriet, Bernard & Isler, Walmar Ponts haubanées, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, Lausanne (Switzerland), ISBN 2880740916, 1985; pp. 40-41

Internal Information

Structure-ID:	s0000646
Created:	01/04/2000
Last Updated:	05/03/2013

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