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Manukau Harbour Bridge Auckland, New Zealand

Manukau Harbour Bridge Auckland, New Zealand.

The Manukau Harbour Bridge is a new 48 km long bridge fromAukland, New Zealand. The goal of the project is to relieve congestion through Auckland, to make travel times shorter and more predictable and allow more room for bus lanes.

The aims are:

To improve efficiency and safety, and to reduce congestion on this part of the SH20 motorway
To increase capacity for vehicles travelling across Manukau Harbour
To improve access between the south-western Motorway and Onehunga to Pakuranga arterial route.

The construction will begin in 2008 and the contractor has not appointed yet. Read the rest of this entry »

Herren Tunnel, Lübeck, Germany

The Herren Tunnel is a 780 metre-long road-tunnel underneath the river Trave.

The city of Lübeck in the Hanseatic League region of Northern Germany had a major traffic congestion problem across the Trave River, which divided the old city from the new regions of the city.The traffic used to run across the Trave River via a road bridge, which was desperately in need of replacement

The Federal government offered sufficient funds to the City of Lübeck for a replacement bridge at the initial planning stages in 1997.The best option for the city was the construction of a bridge that will take the traffic along the diverted national B104 under the river.
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The Incheon Bridge, Incheon, South Korea

The Incheon Bridge, bridge currently under construction, will become the second connection between Incheon and Yeongjong Island, in South Korea. It will be finished in 2009. The Incheon Bridge will be 18,2 km long, of wich the most dificult part will be cable-stayed bridge portion over the main sea route to Incheon port. The Incheon bridge’s budget is estimated to over $2.5 billion.

The foundations will be drilled cast in place piles and the bridge pylons will be Y-shaped concrete structures. The main bridge span is designed for the safe passage of shipping under the bridge. The approach bridges will be constructed using the pre-cast concrete segmental method including the girders and pier caps, while the viaduct bridges will be constructed by the full span precast launching method. Load-testing for the 3m drilled shafts for piling were completed to a standard of 210,000kN in February 2005.
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Empire State Building

Empire State Building is located near the intersection between West 34th Street and Fifth Avenue , in New York.

American Society of Civil Engineers named Empire State Building as one of the Seven Wonders of Modern World. The building become the tallest building in New York in 2001, after World Trade Center were destroyed.

Empire State Building is owned and managed by W&H Properties.

The Empire State Building remained the tallest skyscraper in the world for 41 years, and stood as the world’s tallest man-made structure for 23 years. It was surpassed as tallest building by the North Tower of the World Trade Center in 1972.