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Waagner-Biro was contracted to build the first floating bridge in Dubai connecting two suburbs. The 365 meter long, 22 meter wide pontoon bridge features six lanes across two mirrored decks and a rotating middle section to allow ship passage. To compensate for movement, transitory elements were installed between the 115 meter long concrete floating pontoons and ramps. The bridge was assembled in just 23 days, with the entire project taking only 10 months to design, build foundations, and install the steel structures.

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Dubai Floating Bridge en

Waagner-Biro was contracted to build the first floating bridge in Dubai connecting two suburbs. The 365 meter long, 22 meter wide pontoon bridge features six lanes across two mirrored decks and a rotating middle section to allow ship passage. To compensate for movement, transitory elements were installed between the 115 meter long concrete floating pontoons and ramps. The bridge was assembled in just 23 days, with the entire project taking only 10 months to design, build foundations, and install the steel structures.

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FIRST FLOATING BRIDGE IN DUBAI

Waagner-Biro was contracted to build the first floating bridge in Dubai connecting the suburbs of Bur Dubai and Deira.With a total length of 365 metres and a width of 22 metres, the pontoon bridge features six lanes on two identical, mirrored decks spanning the entire Dubai Creek. For each direction an independent supporting structure has been constructed.The parallel structures were designed to accommodate three lanes and one footwalk each. Between the two floating pontoons made of concrete, each 115 metres long and 22 metres wide, a hydraulically driven rotating middle section made of steel is positioned to allow for undisturbed navigation.To compensate for differences in level as well as for transverse inclinations (heeling) and longitudinal displacements resulting from traffic loads and wave action acting on the ramp, another two rows of 28 transitory elements are installed between the floating pontoons and the transitory ramp on either bank. 23 standard elements filled with highly resistant polystyrene plates serve as the actual floating body supporting several thousands of tons

of the heavy bridge on water level.The bridge was assembled in day and night shifts in the record time of only 23 days.Altogether the time for design, foundation works, bank installations, as well as manufacture and installation of the steel structures added up to merely 10 months. On 15 July 2007 a ceremony was held to officially open the first floating bridge in the city of Dubai to traffic. The competent implementation of various large-scale projects in the fields of steel and glass engineering and bridge construction has consolidated the company's position as a valuable partner in the Middle East.Prominent architects such as Norman Foster, Santiago Calatrava, Jean Nouvel, HOK, SOM or Jerde Partnership trust likewise in the innovative achievements of Waagner-Biro, as do public contractors. In the coming years many more projects in the United Arab Emirates will bear the hallmarks of Waagner-Biro.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates Road bridge Pontoon (floating) bridge 365 m (at a width of 22 m) 2007

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