General Information
| Name in local language: | Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir |
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| Beginning of works: | 2004 |
| Completion: | 13 July 2006 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Lenticular truss bridge with penticular web |
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| Function / usage: |
Pedestrian bridge (footbridge) |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Paris (12th), Paris, Ile-de-France, France Paris (13th), Paris, Ile-de-France, France |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 48° 50' 7" N 2° 22' 41" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 190 m | |
| total length | 304 m | |
| deck | width | 12 m |
Cost
| cost of construction | Euro 21 000 000 |
Materials
| deck |
steel
|
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Chronology
| 1999 | Competition begins |
|---|---|
| September 2004 | Beginning of construction. |
| Night of 28 January 2006 | Lifting of the vesica, the central part of the bridge. |
Participants
Owner
Architecture
Structural engineering
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RFR Ingénieurs / Consulting Engineers
- Raphaël Menard
- Michael Hortmann
- Matthias Kutterer (engineer)
- Bernhard Sill (engineer)
- Bernard Vaudeville (engineer)
- Henry Bardsley (engineer)
- Raphaël Menard (engineer)
- François Consigny (engineer)
- Valérie Boniface (engineer)
- Joel Raoul (engineer)
- Daniel Le Faucheur (engineer)
Main contractor
Co-contractor
Subcontractor
Lifting
Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2002): The Bercy-Tolbiac footbridge in Paris. Presented at: Footbridge 2002, Paris, 20-22.11.2002.
- (2010): Bridge Architecture + Design. 1st edition, Braun Publishing AG, Salenstein (Switzerland), ISBN 978-3-03768-025-4, pp. 84-87.
- (2002): Bridge Builders. Wiley, pp. 148-149.
- (2002): Bridges - Ponts - Brücken. Atrium, Mexico City (Mexico), pp. 536-543.
- Closer cooperation the key to fewer "bouncing bridge" failures. In: Bridge Design & Engineering, v. 9, n. 30 (1st Quarter 2003), pp. 21-22.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20000594 - Published on:
15/01/2000 - Last updated on:
07/06/2018
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