Detalhes do Projeto

BRIDGE MACAU-TAIPA

Client: Government de Macau – Port and Bridge Bureau 
Location: Macau – China
Execution Period: 32 months
Conclusion Year: 1994

 

Construction of the Bridge Macau-Taipa, in China, with a total length of 4.534 ml.  The bridge is suspended by cables, built with beams and concrete, in a wavy shape. 

Total length: 4.534 lm
Pedestrian bridges: 159 spans x 12 m
Access viaducts: 54 spans x 35 m
Bridges over the navigation canals: 3 spans x 112 m + 7 spans x 35 m 
North and South Access Ways

Piles:
Pedestrian Bridges: 1.366 precast and driven piles with 0,60 x 0,60 m²  and with lengths ranging from 18 meters to 37 meters, totalling approximately 43.000 meters. Bridge and access viaducts: 332 piles Ø 0,125 m with definitive metallic casing with a length of 35 meters and a thickness of 16 mm, previously driven, then drilled and concreted “in situ”, with a length ranging from 20 meters to 71 meters, totalling approximately 20.000 meters
Access ways: Ø 900 mm bored piles

Precast and installation of reinforced concrete elements: 
Palisades: 1/2 precast and prestressed decks 12 meters long: 310 units with 110 tons / unit

Acess viaducts:
Caissons for foundation footings with 7,40 x 6,60 m2: 54 units with 80 tons / unit
Canopies for pile capping and support to the precast beams: 54 units with 130 tons / unit
Piers (sections) “H” shaped with 4 meters length: 240 units with 60 tons / unit
Precast and prestress beams “I” shaped, with 35 meters length and 1,80 meters high: 324 units with 60 tons / unit

Bridges over the navigation canals:
Caissons for footings: 12 units Ø 9 meters and 110 tons / unit + 8 units with 7,40×6,60 m2 and 80 tons / unit
Canopies between piers suspended to support beams: 16 units with weight ranging from 200 tons to 300 tons
Frame rails with a length of 63 meters: 2 units with 490 tons / unit
Frame rails with a length of 52 meters: 2 units with 415 tons / unit
Sections frame rails with a length of 6,8 meters: 48 units with 35 tons / unit
Precast and prestress beams “I” shaped, with 35 meters length and 1,80 meters high: 102 units with 60 tons / unit

Main quantities:
Concrete: 95.000 m³
Concrete Rebar Cages: 9.000 tons 
Prestress Steel: 1.300 tons 
Tie-rods steel: 200 tons 
Injections: 220 tons 
Concrete Paintings: 300.000 m2 
Precast Elements:  2.610 units 

 

Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

3rd Party Cookies

This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.

Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website.