Msikaba and Mtentu River Bridges – Large Scale Infrastructure in Rural South Africa
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Nick Fuchs
(CH2M (now Jacobs), HVA Joint Venture, Swindon, United-Kingdom)
Stuart Withycombe (CH2M (now Jacobs), HVA Joint Venture, Swindon, United-Kingdom) John Anderson (SMEC South Africa, HVA Joint Venture, Cape Town, South Africa) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Tomorrow’s Megastructures, Nantes, France, 19-21 September 2018 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Nantes 2018 | ||||
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| Page(s): | S12-65 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/nantes.2018.s12-65 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The Msikaba and Mtentu River Bridges are located in the Wild Coast Region of South Africa and are being developed for client South African National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL). They are required as part of the overall plan to relocate the main north-south N2 highway through the Transkei to shorten overall travel times and to provide much improved access to one of the poorest regions of South Africa. Msikaba is a 580 m span cable-stayed bridge with pylons located at the gorge edge and no backspans; Mtentu is a 1.1 km long viaduct with a 260 m central balanced cantilever span. The project will be transformational for the Eastern Cape Province and local area, providing much needed socio-economic benefit, through new jobs and transport links that will be a catalyst for improvement, investment and development. This paper will show that the concept of a mega- structure needs to be seen in the context of the project and the community it serves. |
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| Keywords: |
balanced cantilever composite environment cable-stayed community development post-tensioned Mega-structures incremental launch
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