Cleveland Bridge - Suspension Bridges

Suspension Bridges

Cleveland Bridge has established a position as a world leader in suspension bridge construction with a unique combination of skills in one organisation for design, construction engineering, procurement, project management and bridge construction. This comes from a long history of bridge building and over 40 years experience in building suspension bridges, including major roles on three of the world's seven longest span bridges - and contributions to two others.

New Carquinez Bridge, USA - Artists Impression

Our current capability is based on ten years' continuous experience, most recently on the New Carquinez Al Zampa Memorial Bridge in San Francisco, opened in November 2003, as main contractor in joint venture. Cleveland Bridge's strength lies in the in-house expertise for both design and construction: external consultants are used only when necessary to supplement our own resources or for analysis. That expertise, exemplified by the success of Tsing Ma and Jiangyin Bridges, includes

fabrication of orthotropic plate decks
world wide procurement of specialised products
cable construction by spinning and preformed strand
construction in navigable waters
work at remote sites
pre-assembly of massive decks
marine transport and heavy lifting
managing large local work forces
project management to time and budget.

In this field Cleveland Bridge works as a main contractor in joint venture with other contractors and local partners to deploy the particular expertise of Cleveland Bridge with the maximum of local resource to achieve success for the client.

Experience Record

Completed	Bridge	Location	Main Span(m)
1938	Otto Beit	Zimbabwe	320
1961	Tamar	Saltash, England	335
1964	Forth Road	Edinburgh, Scotland	1006
1966	Severn	Bristol, England	988
1970	Pierre Laporte	Quebec, Canada	668
1973	Bosporus	Istanbul, Turkey	1074
1981	Humber	Hull, England	1410
1994	Rodenkirchen	Cologne, Germany	378
1997	Tsing Ma	Hong Kong	1377
1999	Jiangyin Yangtze River	Jiangsu Province, China	1385
2003	New Carquinez	San Francisco, USA	728

The World's Longest Spans - The Role of Cleveland Bridge/Dorman Long

Rank	Completed	Bridge	Main span (m)	Cleveland/Dorman Long Involvement
1.	1998	Akashi Kaikyo, Japan	1991
2.	UC08	Xihoumen, Zhoushan Island, China	1650
3.	1998	Storebaelt East, Denmark	1624	A Cleveland Bridge team supervised the cable spinning in record time
4.	2005	Runyang South, China	1490	DLT subcontractor for the deck erection gantries
5.	1981	Humber, Hull, England	1410	Main contractor in joint venture for cables and deck
6.	1999	Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China	1385	Main contractor for cables and main span deck
7.	1997	Tsing Ma, Hong Kong	1377	Principal contractor in joint venture for cables and deck

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