Port Mann Bridge (Canada)
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Project information Port Mann Bridge (Canada) Project descripton mageba scope Highlights & Facts The Port Mann Bridge is one of British Co- mageba has delivered the modular ex- lumbia’s most significant bridge structures, pansion joints required for the entire mageba products: carrying the Trans-Canada Highway (Cana- bridge including both approaches. The Type: Modular expansion joints da’s Highway 1) across the Fraser River to joints have up to 11 movement gaps and and disc bearings* the west of Vancouver. As part of the ma- thus can facilitate movements of up to Features: Expansion joints with jor Port Mann Highway 1 project, which 35 inches (880 mm). In noise-sensitive ar- movements of up to also includes the widening and upgrading eas, several joints are equipped with noise- 35 in (880 mm), some of 23 miles (37 km) of highway, the bridge reducing “sinus plates” on the surface. featuring “sinus plates” Installation: 2012 has been replaced with a new structure, and mageba also supplied, in cooperation was opened to traffic at the end of 2012. with R.J. Watson Inc., disc bearings for the Structure: The new bridge is designed for 10 lanes of bridge. These are designed for loads of up City: Vancouver traffic, and with its main span of 1,542 ft to 19,000 kN and a number feature “double Country: Canada (470 m), it is the second longest cable- discs” to achieve this load capacity. Built: 2008–2012 stayed span in North America. At 164 ft (50 m) wide, the new bridge is also the wid- Type: Cable stayed bridge est span bridge of any type in the world. Length: 1.37 mi (2,200 m) Maintained: Transportation Invesment Corporation Contractor: Kiewit Flatiron General Partnership * in cooperation with R.J. Watson Inc. A modular expansion joint featuring noise-reducing Disc bearings (with double discs per bearing) ready Location of the bridge in British Columbia “sinus plates” on its surface for delivery Canada Vancouver Island USA © 2016 Google 2020.02 CA-EN ©mageba mageba LLC - 5455 De Gaspe Ave. Suite 710 - Montreal, Quebec, H2T 3B3 - Canada - T +1 438-834-1450 - [email protected].