TENDER AMOUNT
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1994
AN AMOUNT OF
THEREOF. MULTIPLES
TENDER MUST BE FOR : EACH
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FIRST SPAN FORMED ON RAMBLER CHANNEL BRIDGE
THE ROUTE 3 RAMBLER CHANNEL BRIDGE IS TAKING SHAPE AS THE FIRST OF 40 SPANS HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED ON ITS EASTERN APPROACH IN KHAI CHUNG.
IN
BY IS FORMED
16 CONCRETE THIS FIRST SPAN, 50 METRES LONG, SEGMENTS USING THE PRE-CAST SEGMENTAL BALANCED CANTILEVER TECHNIQUE.
MARKS THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE TECHNIQUE
SEVEN WEEKS THE BRIDGE DECK CONSTRUCTION, WHICH STARTED ONLY ABOUT
ROUTE 3 AGO, SAID THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE HIGHWAYS DEPARTMENT'S DIVISION, MR C K WONG.
"
"THIS
EXPLAINED THAT
WONG MR
BALANCED
AN
KONG
SEGMENTAL THE PRE-CAST
LAUNCHING
GIRDER, THE USE OF A CANTILEVER TECHNIQUE INVOLVED ADVANCED PIECE OF SPECIALIST BRIDGE EQUIPMENT PIONEERED IN HONG BY THE LEAD CONTRACTOR OF THE PROJECT, DRAGAGES ET TRAVAUX PUBLICS.
ONLY
"THIS GIRDER HAS BEEN USED TWICE PREVIOUSLY IN EUROPE AND
40 HE SAID. ONCE BEFORE IN HONG KONG ON THE KWUN TONG BYPASS PROJECT,
IS
EACH PRE-CAST SEGMENT, WEIGHING BETWEEN 80 AND 120 TONNES, POSITIONED BY THE LAUNCHING GIRDER AND DURING THE CANTILEVERING OF THE BRIDGE DECK SEGMENTS, ONE BY ONE ALTERNATIVELY ON BOTH SIDES OF A PIER, EACH SEGMENT IS BOLTED TO THE NEXT ONE UNTIL THE CLOSING OF SPAN IS ACHIEVED.
ONE
THE PROCESS IS THEN REPEATED UNTIL THE BRIDGE DECK IS FORMED.
1.2 KILOMETRES LONG
MR WONG SAID THE SECOND SPAN, WITH THE SAME LENGTH AND PARALLEL TO THE FIRST ONE ON THE EASTERN APPROACH, WILL BE LATER TODAY (MONDAY).
"WE
RUNNING COMPLETED
BE EXPECT THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ENTIRE BRIDGE DECK WILL
PROJECT WILL BE COMPLETED BY THE END OF NEXT YEAR, AND THE WHOLE FINISHED IN 1996," HE SAID.
WHEN COMPLETED, THE RAMBLER CHANNEL BRIDGE
WILL CARRY A DUAL
THREE-LANE EXPRESSWAY.
/THE BRIDGE