Project Information Nansha Bridge (China) ©huanqiu.com Project description mageba scope Highlights & Facts Nansha Bridge crossing the Pearl River in mageba is proud to be able to contribute South China’s Guangdong province, is a to the construction of this mega project mageba products: super-large suspension bridge, opened to by installing 41 m TENSA®MODULAR Type: TENSA®MODULAR traffic in 2019. expansion joints of type LR24, with each expansion joints LR24 The bridge with its length of 12.9 km and product featuring 24 individual gaps and Installation: 2018 width of 40.5 m, accommodating eight facilitating movements of up to 1,920 mm. traffic lanes, is the world’s widest steel box In order to ensure high traffic safety in Structure: girder suspension bridge. It is also the steel wet conditions, the entire steel surface is City: Guangzhou box girder suspension bridge with the larg- treated with an anti-skid surfacing. Country: China est span (1,688 m) in the world. The struc- One side of the expansion joints is con- Type: Suspension bridge ture can bear a maximum speed of 100 km nected to the steel box girder, while the Built: 2019 per hour and has an estimated service life other is connected to the concrete ap- Designer: CCCC Highway Consult- of 100 years. proach bridge. ants Co., Ltd It shortens the travel distance from Guang- In order to ensure the durability and reli- Contractor: CCCC Second Highway zhou to Dongguan by 10 km, saving half an ability of the expansion joints under ex- Engineering Co., Ltd hour of travelling time between the two treme movement, the installed products Owner: Guangdong Highway Construction Co., cities, and plays a vital role in accelerat- on Nansha Bridge feature a two-way move- Ltd Nansha Branch ing economic cooperation and infrastruc- able design in order to accommodate the ture connectivity among the cities of the bridge’s movements and rotations better. Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Nansha Bridge crosses the Pearl River in South Lifting of a TENSA®MODULAR expansion joints of 24-gap TENSA®MODULAR expansion joints were China’s Guangdong province type LR24 on Nansha Bridge installed in the bridge’s superstructure China © 2020 Google 2021.01 CH-EN ©mageba mageba sa – Solistrasse 68 – 8180 Bulach – Switzerland – T +41 44 872 40 50 – [email protected].