6/11/2023 0 Comments Breaking bridge constructor![]() ![]() The bridge was initially scheduled for completion in September 2023, and later brought forward to March 2022. The contract was awarded to a consortium containing Turkish companies Limak Holding and Yapı Merkezi, alongside South Korean companies DL Holdings and SK Ecoplant. Bids for the contract to construct the bridge were made in 2017. In September 2016, the government officially launched the bridge building project. A bridge was proposed again in 2012, and in 2014, it was placed in the Turkish government's future transportation projects list. Proposals for a bridge spanning the Dardanelles Strait have existed since the 1990s. Īccording to President Erdoğan, the bridge cost 2.5 billion euros (2.7 billion US dollars) to build, but would save €415 million ($458 million) per year from a reduction of fuel consumption and carbon emissions. The deck carries six lanes of motorway (three in each direction), together with a walkway on each side for maintenance. The deck of the bridge is 72.8 m (239 ft) high and 45.06 m (147.8 ft) wide, with a maximum thickness of 3.5 m (11 ft). Internationally, the bridge is the second tallest bridge in the world, surpassing the Pingtang Bridge in China. The height of the bridge's two towers is 334 m (1,096 ft), making it the tallest bridge in Turkey, surpassing Yavuz Sultan Selim Bridge, and the third tallest structure in the country. The total length of the bridge is 3,563 m (11,690 ft) and together with the approach viaducts the length reaches 4,608 m (15,118 ft), which surpasses the total length of the Osman Gazi Bridge and its approach viaducts by 527 m (1,729 ft), to become the longest bridge of any type in Turkey. ![]() The Administrator consultants are Tekfen and T-ingénierie. Arup and Aas-Jakobsen participated in the project as Independent Design Verifier (IDV). The bridge's tender project was designed by Tekfen Construction and Installation and detailed designed by COWI A/S and PEC (Pyunghwa Engineering Consultants in South Korea, for cable design and approach bridge design packages only). The bridge is the first fixed crossing over the Dardanelles and the sixth one across the Turkish Straits, after three bridges over the Bosphorus and two tunnels under it. It is the centrepiece of the planned 321-kilometre long (199 mi) US$2.8 billion Kınalı-Balıkesir Motorway, which will connect the O-3 and O-7 motorways in East Thrace to the O-5 motorway in Anatolia. The bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world-with a main span of 2,023 m (6,637 ft), the bridge surpasses the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (1998) in Japan by 32 m (105 ft). The year "1915" in the official Turkish name honours an important Ottoman naval victory against the navies of the United Kingdom and France during World War I. ![]() The bridge was officially opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 18 March 2022 after roughly five years of construction. Situated just south of the coastal towns of Lapseki and Gelibolu, the bridge spans the Dardanelles, about 10 km (6.2 mi) south of the Sea of Marmara. The 1915 Çanakkale Bridge ( Turkish: 1915 Çanakkale Köprüsü), is a road suspension bridge in the province of Çanakkale in northwestern Turkey.
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