General Information
Project Type
| Function / usage: |
Pedestrian bridge (footbridge) |
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| Structure: |
Swing bridge Cable-stayed bridge with semi-fan system |
| Secondary structure(s): |
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Awards and Distinctions
| 2012 |
award winner
for registered users |
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Location
| Location: |
Salford, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom Trafford, Greater Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Crosses: |
Manchester Ship Canal (1894)
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| Coordinates: | 53° 28' 16.69" N 2° 18' 0.28" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 65 m | |
| width | 4 - 20 m | |
| length | 83 m |
Case Studies and Applied Products
MediaCity Footbridge
MediaCityUK is major development in Manchester, UK, that provides a new home for the UK's BBC and ITV broadcasting organisations. It includes general office and retail / leisure space, a hotel, residential apartments, and a new tram station that links to the city c ... [more]
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Media City Footbridge is a swing-mechanism footbridge over the Manchester Ship Canal near MediaCityUK. It is an asymmetric cable-stayed swing bridge. It was designed by Gifford (now part of the Ramboll Group) and Wilkinson Eyre.
The bridge links MediaCityUK with Trafford Wharf. It weighs 450 tonnes, and has two spans of 65 and 18 metres (213 and 59 ft). It swings through 71 degrees to give a 48-metre (157 ft) navigation channel. The deck of the bridge is an orthotropic steel box. The bridge is supported by eight tapered steel fanned masts. It was built by Balfour Beatty, with the steel fabrication by Rowecord Engineering of Newport, South Wales. The swing mechanism is built on a reinforced concrete caisson foundation of 13 metres (43 ft) diameter. Above the water it is 7.3 metres (24 ft) in diameter.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Media City Footbridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
Participants
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2012): Fußgängerbrücken. Stege und Rampen, Entwurf, Konstruktion. DETAIL Institut für international Architektur-Dokumentation, Munich (Germany), ISBN 9783920034638, pp. 106-107.
- (2023): GMC21. Twenty-first Century Architecture in Manchester and Salford. The Modernist, London (United Kingdom), ISBN 9781916471887, pp. 50.
- (2010): Media City Footbridge, Salford Quays. Presented at: IABSE Symposium: Large Structures and Infrastructures for Environmentally Constrained and Urbanised Areas, Venice, Italy, 22-24 September 2010, pp. 160-161.
- (2011): Media City Footbridge, Salford Quays. Presented at: 4th International Conference Footbridge 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, 6-8 July 2011.
- (2011): Media City Footbridge, Salford, UK. Presented at: 35th Annual Symposium of IABSE / 52nd Annual Symposium of IASS / 6th International Conference on Space Structures: Taller, Longer, Lighter - Meeting growing demand with limited resources, London, United Kingdom, September 2011.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20043375 - Published on:
04/02/2009 - Last updated on:
17/04/2024
