New England Highway (Australia)

Project information

Project description mageba scope Highlights & Facts The New England Highway in New South In order to support the superstructure Wales, the inland alternative to the Pacific at its ends, where its design requires mageba products: Highway between Sydney and Brisbane, movements to be accommodated, 4 Type: RESTON®SPHERICAL crosses challenging terrain in places, es- RESTON®SPHERICAL bearings were de- bearings pecially at Bolivia Hill, where the highway signed and installed at the same gradient Installation: 2020 traverses a particularly adverse landscape. as the bridge’s surface. A newly constructed bridge enables the This type of bearing was selected for use Structure: traffic to pass through this area much as it can accommodate very high rota- Location: Bolivia Hill more safely and quickly. The cast in-situ tions and offers high strength and durabil- Country: Australia concrete box girder bridge, constructed ity. The installed bearings were designed Type: Concrete box girder by the balanced cantilever method with a to carry a normal load of 11,500 kN and bridge superstructure depth of up to 8.5 m, has a to accommodate either unidirectional or Length: 150 m main span of 150 m and outer spans of 80 multidirectional movements. Owner: Transport for New South Wales m and 86 m respectively. The spherical bearings were equipped with Added to these impressive dimensions anchor plates for easier future repair or re- Contractor: Georgiou-SRG JV and the lack of symmetry is the bridge’s placement, and with an inclined transition Designer: ARCADIS enormous gradient of 8.2%, which is an plate beneath each bearing to enable it to exceptionally high slope for a major road be in-stalled on a horizontal substructure. bridge. Before installation, the bearings were test- ed at mageba Australia’s in-house nation- ally-certified testing laboratory in Sydney.

The project is located at Bolivia Hill, New South Fabrication and assembly of the bearings was carried Testing of a bearing, at mageba Australia’s in-house Wales out in mageba’s Shanghai factory NATA-accredited (ILAC MRA) laboratory in Sydney

Bolivia Hill