General Information
| Completion: | 25 June 2011 |
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| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Self-anchored suspension bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Bicycle and pedestrian bridge |
| Plan view: |
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| Material: |
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Awards and Distinctions
| 2012 |
award winner
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Location
| Location: |
Derry, Derry and Strabane, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 54° 59' 52.45" N 7° 18' 57.42" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 96.3 m | |
| total length | 310 m | |
| span lengths | 12.5 m - 63.4 m - 96.3 m - 63.4 m - 39.4 m - 37.2 m | |
| deck width | 4.6 - 5.6 m | |
| number of spans | 6 | |
| pylons | height | 38.1 m |
Materials
| deck |
steel
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| pylons |
steel
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Peace Bridge is a cycle and foot bridge across the River Foyle in Derry, Northern Ireland. It opened on 25 June 2011, connecting Ebrington Square with the rest of the city centre. It is the newest of three bridges in the city, the others being the Craigavon Bridge and the Foyle Bridge. The 235 metres (771 ft) bridge was designed by AECOM, who also designed the Sutong Yangtze River Bridge, and Wilkinson Eyre Architects, who also designed the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
The bridge was opened to the public by EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, Johannes Hahn; accompanied by the First and deputy First Ministers, Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness; and the Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny. It is intended to improve relations between the largely unionist 'Waterside' with the largely nationalist 'Cityside', by improving access between these areas, as part of wider regeneration plans. The bridge also provides a crossing over the railway line approaching Waterside station.
The bridge was funded jointly by the Department for Social Development (NI), the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government along with matching funding, totalling £14 million, from the SEUPB Peace III programme.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Peace Bridge (Foyle)" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- Derry selects self-anchored footbridge. In: Bridge Design & Engineering, v. 15, n. 55 (2nd Quarter 2009), pp. 8.
- (2011): Peace Bridge, Derry-Londonderry. Presented at: 4th International Conference Footbridge 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, 6-8 July 2011.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20049184 - Published on:
30/11/2009 - Last updated on:
30/05/2017
