Preliminary Design of the New Bridge for the St Lawrence River
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Matthew Carter
(Arup, New York, NY, USA and Arup, Montreal, Canada)
Lana Potapova (Arup, New York, NY, USA and Arup, Montreal, Canada) Doug Balmer (Arup, New York, NY, USA and Arup, Montreal, Canada) Poul Jensen (Dissing + Weitling, Copenhagen, Denmark) Kasper Svanberg (Dissing + Weitling, Copenhagen, Denmark) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Geneva 2015 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 378-385 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815818357377 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The New Bridge for the St. Lawrence Corridor Project is a 3 billion dollar urban highway project which is being procured through public private partnership. The centrepiece of the project is a 3km crossing of the St Lawrence River which forms a vital link between the city of Montreal and the Brossard shore. The design includes a cable-stayed main span over the St Lawrence Seaway with elevated approaches on either si de. The approach bridge substructure is a unique "W-pier" supporting three separate box girders. The design has been developed through a number of stages to arrive at a solution which is architecturally elegant as weil as being durable and buildable. This paper will describe the preliminary design of the bridge, explaining the evolution of the design in different stages and demonstrating how technical requirements and architectural vision were combined in the design. |
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| Keywords: |
cable-stayed bridges architecture engineering Canada long-span bridges Montreal Definition Design Public-Private Partnership (PPP) St. Lawrence River
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