General Information
| Other name(s): | Viaduc de l'Eau Rouge |
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| Beginning of works: | 1989 |
| Completion: | August 1993 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Deck arch bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Motorway bridge / freeway bridge |
| Material: |
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Location
| Location: |
Malmedy, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium |
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| Carries: |
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| Coordinates: | 50° 26' 35.12" N 6° 0' 26.81" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 652.50 m | |
| span lengths | 33.75 m - 5 x 45.00 m - 270.00 m - 2 x 45.00 m - 33.75 m | |
| number of spans | 10 | |
| arch span | 270.00 m | |
| height above valley floor or water | 45 m | |
| number of lanes | 2 x 2 | |
| roadway / carriageway width | 4 x 3.75 m | |
| deck | deck width | 27 m |
Cost
| cost of construction | Belgian franc 1 020 000 000 |
Materials
| piers |
reinforced concrete
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| arch |
steel
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Eau Rouge is a small, 15-kilometre (9 mi) long stream in the Belgian province of Liège, right tributary of the Amblève.
It starts in the Hautes Fagnes ("High Fens") and ends in Challes, near Stavelot in the river Amblève. The river gets its name from the coloration of the stones and riverbed due to reddish iron oxide deposits. The Eau Rouge is particularly geomorphologically interesting, as it appears to be using the old Warche river stream bed.
The Eau Rouge has been a border river for several periods in its existence, including an administrative boundary under the Roman Empire between Cologne and Tongeren, and the state border between the Netherlands and Prussia from 1815 to 1839 and then between Belgium and Prussia from 1839 to 1919.
Eau Rouge and the F1 Circuit
The bridge where the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps crosses the Eau Rouge at the corner bearing its name The Eau Rouge river as it passes the interior of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, close to the pit complex
The Eau Rouge has lent its name to the Eau Rouge corner, one of the best-known corners in Formula One race tracks in the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps motor racing circuit, at the point where the track crosses it for the first time.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Eau Rouge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (1990): "Eau Rouge" viaduct, Stavolot-Malmédy (Belgium). In: IABSE Structures, v. 14 ( 1990).
- (2012): Les missions de l'ingénieur. Le Bureau Greisch. Prisme Editions & Mardaga, Liège (Belgium), ISBN 978-2930451-10-7, pp. 68-69.
- Le viaduc de l'Eau Rouge. brochure, Francis Hambye, Namur (Belgium), 1998.
- (1994): Viaduc de l'Eau Rouge. In: Construction Métallique, n. 1 ( 1994).
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20007108 - Published on:
04/12/2002 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
