Italian infrastructure firm Webuild announced that the complex installation of the two supporting cables between the two towers of Romania’s Braila Bridge has been accomplished on the second longest suspension bridge on continental Europe that is gradually taking shape thanks to a joint-venture led by Webuild. In less than four months more than 150 technicians and specialized workers installed the two cables, consisting of approximately 18,000 intertwined steel wires weighing a combined 6,775 tonnes and stretching for a combined 38,000 kilometers. This new milestone brings the project to 59% completion.Commissioned by the National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration, a state entity under Romania’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, the project is financed by the EU’s Operational Programme for Large Infrastructure. The bridge, which is being built together with IHI Infrastructure Systems Co Ltd, will connect the two shores of the Danube River in the Galati-Braila area, reducing crossing times for approximately 7,000 vehicles a day, which have had to rely on ferries up until now.It will have a central main span of 1,120 metres, but its total length will be 1,975 metres. The bridge will have four lanes, emergency lanes and cycle paths. On either side of the bridge there will be an access viaduct approximately 90 metres long and a 220 metre viaduct to cross the Braila Galati railway and a new network of 21 kilometres of connecting roads.
Italian infrastructure firm Webuild announced that the complex installation of the two supporting cables between the two towers of Romania’s Braila Bridge has been accomplished on the second longest suspension bridge on continental Europe that is gradually taking shape thanks to a joint-venture led by Webuild. In less than four months more than 150 technicians and specialized workers installed the two cables, consisting of approximately 18,000 intertwined steel wires weighing a combined 6,775 tonnes and stretching for a combined 38,000 kilometers. This new milestone brings the project to 59% completion.Commissioned by the National Company for Road Infrastructure Administration, a state entity under Romania’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, the project is financed by the EU’s Operational Programme for Large Infrastructure. The bridge, which is being built together with IHI Infrastructure Systems Co Ltd, will connect the two shores of the Danube River in the Galati-Braila area, reducing crossing times for approximately 7,000 vehicles a day, which have had to rely on ferries up until now.It will have a central main span of 1,120 metres, but its total length will be 1,975 metres. The bridge will have four lanes, emergency lanes and cycle paths. On either side of the bridge there will be an access viaduct approximately 90 metres long and a 220 metre viaduct to cross the Braila Galati railway and a new network of 21 kilometres of connecting roads.
