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Weekly Traverse - Check out in this thread below what’s making #bridge news in #Australia this week!
@CivmecCE, @WAGovernment, and @PCHFWA have broken ground on a 3 m wide, 217 m long kaleidoscopic steel #bridge to connect patients and families at @PerthChildrens with Kings Park in #Perth.
: @perthnow
: https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2021/01/Construction-of-rainbow-Perth-Kids-Bridge-now-underway.aspx
: @perthnow: https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2021/01/Construction-of-rainbow-Perth-Kids-Bridge-now-underway.aspx
As part of the @WestGateTunnel project, a bridge section designed in the 70s in #Melbourne was demolished, #thanksfortheservice. A new #bridge with 18 precast beams is being constructed to allow widening of the freeway below.
: @WestGateTunnel
: https://westgatetunnelproject.vic.gov.au/about/latest-updates/freeway-bridge-demolished-to-make-room-for-new,-stronger-bridge
: @WestGateTunnel: https://westgatetunnelproject.vic.gov.au/about/latest-updates/freeway-bridge-demolished-to-make-room-for-new,-stronger-bridge
@Austroads in consultation with @AECOM has released a engineering-focused #guideline for the #risk management of road #bridge assets in #Australia. The document builds from other generic international risk management guidelines.
: @Austroads
: https://infrastructuremagazine.com.au/2021/01/14/new-engineering-based-bridge-asset-management-guide/
: @Austroads : https://infrastructuremagazine.com.au/2021/01/14/new-engineering-based-bridge-asset-management-guide/
In this week in history.11 Jan 1986: The Gateway Bridge in #Brisbane opened as the longest prestressed concrete box girder cantilever #bridge in the world (at the time). A second, almost identical, bridge would be constructed adjacently 24 years later.
: @OnThisDayIH
