General Information
| Other name(s): | Woronora River Bridge |
|---|---|
| Completion: | February 2001 |
| Status: | in use |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Box girder bridge |
|---|---|
| Construction method: |
Incremental launching |
| Material: |
Prestressed concrete bridge |
| Structure: |
Girder bridge with suspended deck |
| Material: |
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| Function / usage: |
upper deck: Road bridge lower deck: Bicycle and pedestrian bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Menai, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Sutherland, Sutherland Shire, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: | 34° 1' 9.70" S 151° 2' 56.10" E |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| total length | 521 m | |
| span lengths | 36 m - 47 m - 2 x 58.7 m - 58.780 m - 58.720 m - 58.000 m - 57.200 m - 49 m - 36 m | |
| number of spans | 10 | |
| horizontal radius of curvature | 450 m | |
| number of lanes | 4 | |
| deck | deck width | 19.6 m - 26.605 m |
| piers | pier height | max. 36 m |
| number | 9 |
Quantities
| concrete volume | 12 200 m³ |
Cost
| cost of construction | Australian dollar 44 800 000 |
Materials
| superstructure |
prestressed concrete
|
|---|---|
| piers |
reinforced concrete
|
| abutments |
reinforced concrete
|
Excerpt from Wikipedia
The Woronora River Bridge (also known as Woronora Bridge) is a four-lane road bridge over the Woronora River at Woronora, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. When completed the bridge was the largest incrementally launched bridge in the Southern Hemisphere with horizontal and vertical curves.
The Woronora Bridge was built to eliminate the steep grades and hairpin bends on the previous route between the southern Sydney suburbs of Sutherland and Bangor. It was completed in 2001 and replaced the two-lane low level Woronora Bridge which opened in 1981, which in turn had replaced a 1912 single-lane timber bridge. The low level bridge remains in use for local traffic.
There is a walkway for cyclists and pedestrians on the northern side of the bridge, located just underneath the road. It can be accessed from Menai Road on the Bangor side and Prince Edward Park Road or River Road on the Sutherland side of the river.
The innovative design and leading-edge construction methods used during the bridge construction were recognised with the Australian Construction Achievement Award in 2002.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Woronora River Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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Relevant Web Sites
Relevant Publications
- (2002): Woronora River Bridge, Sydney. In: Structural Engineering International, v. 12, n. 1 (February 2002), pp. 28-31.
- About this
data sheet - Structure-ID
20005158 - Published on:
19/09/2002 - Last updated on:
25/06/2019
