Bridge over the River Vltava
Czech Republic
Situated just to the south of Prague, contract section R 513 includes a 236 m long bridge across the River Vltava. In terms of the formwork engineering involved, it is one of the most challenging sections of the new orbital motorway.
Project data
- Year of completion
- 2009
- Project duration
- 14 Months
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Address
- Prague
- Contractors
- Skanska
- Structure
- Bridge
- Type of structure
- Cantilevering
Bridge deck/superstructure
- Construction method
- Straight
- Cross-sectional shape
- Twin-cell box girder – straight webs
- Overall length of bridge
- 236 m
- Longest span
- 104 m
- Number of piers
- 2
- Length of concreting section
- 5 m
- Number of casting sections
- 50
- Cycle time
- 6 -day cycle