Some pictures of my new baby, concrete and steel one, not one who wakes up at night asking for a bottle, which must not change diapers, but not one who no longer can be kisses, in short, you guessed it (or not): a new bridge was born! Slowly but surely, since I started working on it since May 2008 when it was opened to traffic there are only 3 weeks. The gestation period of the bridges is certainly longer than women!
Here is a small portfolio of photos of the new Iron Cove Bridge, the second bridge which I had the honor and advantage to accompany the rise after the Sheahan Bridge. Bridge Cities (Iron Cove Bridge) in the heart of the city, bridge cons fields (Sheahan Bridge), among the cows, halfway between Sydney and Melbourne.
View of the bridge is completed, the new concrete bridge duplicates its ancestor, wire mesh, like the airlift of the Paris metro
One of my major tasks on this project: conception of the "nose" blue, attached to the end of the bridge, and only needed during the construction phase, during the "pushing" since the bridge is built in pieces on the shore, and gradually grows until it reaches the other shore. The modest blue nose weighs 75 tons of steel and measure 32m long.
Initial phase: lifting the nose to the crane. Suffice to say that in these moments we recheck his calculations 4 times just to be sure that the attachment points are strong enough, and the small nose of 75 tons will not fall to the brave workers below ...
The nose was made in China, because even if our proposed penalized 20% of all imported products (just to protect products "proudly aussie made"), Chinese noses are twice cheaper than the nose Australians. United States, the American Act requires that all steel products are manufactured on U.S. soil. Who said the U.S. was the advocates of free trade? Free trade is good for others but not for Uncle Sam
View of the bridge being pushed with The Sydney Harbour Bridge in the distance
View of the bridge being pushed, with the lines of floats to guide boaters through bridge piers
Freyssinet workers, struggling with a cylinder of 750 tonnes for the tensioning cables for continuity.
Photos class inside the bridge. Do not look for me, I am a white collar, tucked away in offices, and rarely on site, so I do not have beautiful orange shirt all muddy like the guy starts
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