Steel Construction References

In future the second Strelasund crossing will be the longest road bridge in Germany. The heart of the crossing is a bridge structure consisting of six substructures, which will connect the islands of Rügen, near to Altefähr, with Stralsund on the mainland.

The Czech freeway D47 runs from Lipnik to the Polish border near to Ostrava. The Rudna-Hrusov bridge was erected as part of this freeway, in construction phase 4708, near to Ostrava in the vicinity of the Polish border.

This bridge, built by Stahlbau Engineering Hannover (SEH) in a joint venture with the company Echterhoff, and fabricated in the SEH group workshop Eiffel in Lauterbourg/Alsace, is part of an overall bridge complex measuring 455 m in length, which, as part of the Peine bypass, crosses the railway and works tracks and the industrial site of the company Peiner Träger GmbH.

This suspension bridge, named after the former Greek Premier Harilaos Trikoupis, connects the mainland of western Greece near Patras with the Peloponnese peninsular. 2,500 m in length, it is one of the longest bridges in the world. Instead of a 40 minute ferry crossing, it now takes only 5 minutes to cross the bridge.

The Haseltal Bridge is one of the most interesting bridge projects in recent years. With a length of 845 m and a maximum height of 82 m it spans the Haseltal Valley directly at the Suhl motorway junction. This bridge not only has a gateway function for the town of Suhl, but also offers the possibility among other things of crossing the railway line to Erfurt and a trade park that is listed as a historic monument.

The length of the hall is 238 m, having been completed in September 1998. With a width of 135 m it is therefore the largest unsupported hall in Europe. The covered area amounts to 32,000 m², which is equivalent to a slightly more than three football pitches. In total 2,400 to. of profile section and heavy plate were processed.

The Bertelsmann pavilion at the EXPO-Plaza in Hanover consists of two buildings: a right-angled block and an amorphous round body, i.e. planet m. This round building hovers on six pairs of supports at a height of 9 m above the EXPO-Plaza.

The El-Ferdan Bridge over the Suez Canal is the biggest swing bridge in the world. It was erected between September 1998 and October 2001, having a length of 640 m and a height of up to 60 m.