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IMF chief Strauss-Kahn questioned over ‘sex attack’

15 Sunday May 2011

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IMF chief Strauss-Kahn questioned over ‘sex attack’

15 May 11 04:05



The head of the IMF, Dominique Strass-Kahn, is being questioned by New York police over an alleged sex attack on a hotel maid, say reports.

Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, was taken off an Air France plane at John F Kennedy airport minutes before it left for Paris.

Police said he had not been charged.

The married former French finance minister is also a leading Socialist Party politician and is considered a possible candidate for the presidency.

He is due to attend a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels on Monday to discuss the bailouts of Portugal and Greece.

A spokesman for New York’s Port Authority said they detained Mr Strauss-Kahn at the request of the New York Police Department (NYPD).

He is now being questioned by the NYPD, who said he was co-operating fully with their enquiries.

According to US media reports, the Frenchman was accused of a sexual attack on a maid at a Manhattan hotel.

Spokesman Paul J Browne said the allegations had been made by a 32-year-old woman who worked at the hotel, which has been identified as the Sofitel near Times Square.

The IMF had no immediate comment on the incident.

‘Error of judgement’

Mr Strauss-Kahn ran for leadership of the French Socialist Party in 2007 but eventually came second to Segolene Royale.

Later that year, he was appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

Mr Strauss-Kahn has won praise for his stewardship of the IMF, which he has guided through difficult times including the recent world financial crisis.

But in 2008 he was investigated by the IMF board over his relationship with a female member of his staff.

The board ruled his actions “reflected a serious error of judgment” but that the relationship had been consensual. He apologised to IMF staff and his wife, French TV personality Anne Sinclair.

Mr Strauss-Kahn has not yet announced whether he intends to run in the 2012 French presidential elections but is widely expected to do so.

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IMF and World Bank

15 Sunday May 2011

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IMF and World Bank

The IMF aims to preserve economic stability and to tackle – or ideally prevent – financial crises. Over time, its focus has switched to the developing world.

The World Bank’s predecessor – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development – was set up to drive post-war recovery. Now, it is the world’s leading development organisation, working for growth and poverty reduction.

Owned by the governments of its 185 member states, the Bank channels loans and grants and advises low and middle-income countries.

The IMF is funded by a charge – known as a “quota” – paid by member nations. The quota is based on a country’s wealth and it determines voting power within the organisation; those making higher contributions have greater voting rights.

The Fund acts as a lender of last resort, disbursing its foreign exchange reserves for short periods to any member in difficulties.

Crisis response

The IMF and World Bank attempt to help countries or regions in economic turmoil.

In October 2008 the IMF activated an emergency funding scheme for countries facing economic distress resulting from the global financial crisis. As of August 2010, it had committed around $200 billion in lending to a number of economies affected by the crisis. The biggest borrowers were Hungary, Romania and Ukraine.

The eurozone crisis of 2010 also triggered extensive IMF intervention, including hefty bail-outs for countries such as Greece and Ireland.

Past interventions by the IMF have included providing funds for countries caught up in the 1997 Asian financial crisis, and loans to help South American countries such as Argentina and Brazil stave off debt default crises.

The IMF can also grant emergency loans following natural disasters; these have included the 2004 Asian tsunami.

Developing countries

The IMF and World Bank set up the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility in 1999. The scheme grants loans with conditions attached.

A strategy paper – called a Letter of Intent – specifies the elements of a country’s recovery plan. In return, loans are agreed as and when the targets laid down in the letter are met.

The IMF may demand reforms to promote good governance and to tackle corruption. The Fund maintains that a good climate for business is essential for growth and poverty reduction.

The World Bank funds specific infrastructure projects. One of its agencies, the International Development Association, focuses on the world’s poorest nations. The Bank has pledged its support for UN-backed Millenium Development Goals to reduce key indicators of poverty by 2015.

Debt relief

The Highly Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC), launched by the IMF and the World Bank in 1996, aims to reduce the debt owed by the world’s poorest countries in return for economic reform.

States are eligible if their debt is unsustainable and cannot be tackled by traditional methods. The reforms they have to undertake often include privatisations.

By 2005 nearly 40 countries had started programmes under the HIPC. Debt relief kicks in when a country meets what is called the “decision point”. The end of the process is known as the “completion point”.

By the end of 2010, 32 countries had reached their completion points and were receiving full debt relief from the IMF and other creditors under proposals drawn up in 2005 by the finance ministers of the G8 group.

IMF managing director: Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn became head of the Fund in November 2007, taking over from Spain’s Rodrigo Rato.

Under an unwritten convention, the European Union nominates the head of the IMF, while the US appoints the World Bank head.

Mr Strauss-Kahn served as France’s finance and economy minister between 1997-1999. He is also a former professor of economics at the prestigious Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.

During his time in government, Mr Strauss-Kahn cut the public deficit to qualify France for the euro and took steps that paved the way for the privatisation of a number of state-owned firms. In 2006, he sought the Socialist Party’s nomination for the French presidential election, but was not successful.

He has pledged to pursue reforms to make the IMF more relevant to developing countries.

Day-to-day, the IMF is overseen by a board of 24 executive directors. These are appointed or elected by member governments, or groups of member governments.

The board is headed by the managing director, assisted by three deputies.

World Bank president: Robert Zoellick

The US nominated Robert Zoellick to replace former US deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who stepped down in June 2007 after becoming embroiled in a scandal over alleged favouritism.

Mr Zoellick’s previous experience of international finance included a spell as a senior executive at the Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs.

He also served as US Trade Representative from 2001 to 2005, in which capacity he completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organisation and also pushed for a Central American Free Trade Agreement.

As Deputy Secretary of State under George W. Bush (2005-6), he was seen as a major architect of the US administration’s policies regarding China.

He also took a strong interest in the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, and was involved in negotiating the May 2006 peace accord between the government of Sudan and the Sudan Liberation Movement.

The Fund and the Bank serve as a rallying point for disparate causes – from environmentalists to anarchists – and meetings have occasionally been accompanied by violent street protests.

Protesters and critics are largely united in their distaste for globalisation: broadly speaking, the integration of world economies. They cite the exploitation of the poor and the environment and argue that freer trade threatens the livelihoods of millions of people.

The IMF has admitted that forcing developing countries to open their markets to foreign investors can increase the risk of financial crises.

Its former managing director Horst Koehler said in 2002 that the benefits of globalisation had not been equally shared. But he added that “the objective should not be less globalisation but more and better globalisation.”

Campaigners also argue that loans and long-term agreements can lock countries into aid dependency.

Representation

Developing countries – as well as some of Asia’s rapidly-growing economies – have voiced dissatisfaction with what they say is their lack of influence in the IMF and World Bank.

They have called for changes to the quota system in which votes in the IMF are weighted in line with member nations’ financial contributions.

Under this system, the US has 17% of the vote in the Fund, whereas India, with more than three times the population of the US, has less than one third. And because constitutional changes in the IMF require 85% of the vote, the US has a veto.

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Kap Shui Mun Bridge

01 Sunday May 2011

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The Kap Shui Mun Bridge (KSMB) in Hong Kong was the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world that transports both road and railway traffic (superseded by Oresund Bridge in 2000, with a 490m main span), with the upper deck for motor vehicles, and the lower deck for both vehicles and the MTR. It has a main span of 430 metres and an overall length of 750 metres. It spans the main marine channel, Kap Shui Mun, between Ma Wan and Lantau and provides vertical clearance of 47 metres above sea level.


Span Lengths 

The bridge was completed in 1997. The total length of the Kap Shui Mun Bridge includes a 70 m approach span on the Lantau side. A column in each of the back spans of the cable stayed bridge makes four 80 m spans to add to the 430 m main span. This brings the total length to 820 m. The 503 m Ma Wan Viaduct was constructed under the same contract as the KSMB. The viaduct connects the KSMB to the Tsing Ma Bridge, thus forming the Lantau Link that was built to provide access to the new airport.[2] The navigation clearance of 47 m is part of the reason that the H-shaped towers are 150 m tall.

The Kap Shui Mun Bridge is not symmetrical in that the 160 m back span length (80 m + 80 m) is less than half of the main span length (half of 430 m is 215 m). To provide the balance that symmetry will normally provide, the bridge has composite cross sections. The central 387 m of the main span uses steel composite with concrete to make the cross section lighter. The back spans and the remaining main span are concrete cross sections. Using the lighter steel cross section in the majority of the main span serves to equalize the horizontal forces on the towers and balance the bridge.

Because the lower deck carries both rail and traffic, the cross section is designed as aVierendeel truss. This means that there are no diagonal members in the cross section and that vehicles and rail cars drive through the openings provided by the Vierendiel design.

  • Stay cables
  • Number 8 X 22 = 176
    Total length of stay cables 11 km


  • Movements
  • Vertical, at midspan 470mm
    Lateral, at midspan 155mm
    Longitudinal, at Pier 1 320mm

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Tsing Ma Bridge

30 Saturday Apr 2011

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The Tsing Ma Bridge, which spans 1377m across the busy Ma Wan Channel, is the second longest bridge in the world after the Humber Bridge in Britain. However, it is the longest bridge that carries both motorway and railway.

There are Five Major Components
in the Construction of the Tsing Ma Bridge:

  1. Foundations and the construction of the bridge tower – one tower located on Tsing Yi side and the other on a man-made island 120 m from the coast of Ma Wan Island. Both towers are 206m above sea level and founded on relatively shallow bedrock. The towers are two-legged with trusses at intervals, in the form of portal beam design. The legs were constructed with high-strength concrete of 100 MPa strength, using a slipform system in a continuous operation.

  2. Anchorages – the pulling forces in the main suspension cables is taken up by large gravity anchorages located at both ends of the bridge. They are massive concrete structures deeply seated on bedrock on the landside of Tsing Yi and Ma Wan island. The total weight of concrete used in the two anchorages is about 300,000 tonnes.

  3. Main cables – The cables were constructed by an aerial spinning process. The process involved drawing wires from a constant-tension supply, and pulling loops of these wires from one anchorage to the other, passing a 500-tonne cast-iron saddle on top of each bridge tower seating the cable. A total of 70,000 galvanised wires of 5.38 mm diameter were placed and adjusted to form the 1.1 m diameter main cable.

  4. Suspended deck – The steelwork for the deck structure was fabricated in Britain and Japan. After delivery, they were further processed and assembled in Dongguan of China into standard deck modules. A total of 96 modules, each 18 m long and about 480 tonnes in weight, were prepared. These deck modules were brought to the site by specially designed barges and raised into the deck position by a pair of strand jack gantries that could manoeuvre along the main cable.

  5. Approach span on Tsing Yi side – similar in form and cross-section to the suspended deck, but the approach span was supported on piers instead of cable-support. The first span was assembled on the ground and raised into position using strand jacks. Further erection then proceeded in cantilever in smaller sections, using derrick cranes stationed on the deck level. An expansion joint which allowed for a maximum thermal movement of 850 mm was also provided and located inside the approach span section.

The Tsing Ma Bridge was designed to carry two three-lane carriageways on the upper deck and two railway tracks on the lower deck. There are also two sheltered single-lane carriageways on the lower deck for maintenance access and as backup for traffic during typhoons when wind speed is still within acceptable limits. The construction cost of Tsing Ma bridge is $7.14 billion and the actual completion time was 57 months.

main contractor
Anglo Japanese Construction/Trafalgar House Construction (Asia) Ltd/
Constain Civil Engineering Ltd/Mitsui & Co Ltd  joint venture

 

Record-Breaking Island Link

 

The work base for Tsing Ma Bridge on Tsing Yi Island. This work base comprised concrete batching facilities, a steel handling and fabricating yard, material and equipment storage areas and sub-offices etc.

Partly completed bridge viewed from the main cable and looking towards Ma Wan. The tower of the Kap Shui Mun Bridge can be seen in the background

Partly completed bridge viewed from the main cable and looking towards Tsing Yi.

The Ma Wan Viaduct as seen from the Kap Shui Mun Bridge tower.


The work base for Ma Wan Viaduct on Ma Wan Island. The temporary linking bridge from Ma Wan to the island base of the Tsing Ma Bridge western tower can be seen in the centre of the photo.


Interchange at the Tsing Yi side. In the upper right corner is the expressway leading to the future Ting Kau Bridge which will link the Route 3 Country Park Section to Tsing Yi and Kwai Chung.

Close-up detail of the Interchange. The portal-braced bridge tower can be seen clearly here. The track of the Airport Railway is not visible in this photo as it runs in the lower deck section of Tsing Ma Bridge and, when arriving at the bank on Tsing Yi Island, heads underground.


The 250 m-long approach bridge supported on piers on the Tsing Yi bank, as viewed from the bridge tower.


The connecting section of the steel deck of the approach bridge linked to the coupling structure on the Tsing Yi bank. A derrick crane with a 200 tonne-capacity was positioned on the deck to assist with the lifting of the steel trusses.


Setting up of the derrick crane on the deck top of the approach bridge.

 

The Ma Wan Viaduct as seen from the Kap Shui Mun Bridge tower.

Joining of approach bridge to the Tsing Yi coupling structure.

Using SGB Alum form to construct the box section of the bridge coupling structure.

Detail of the complicated coupling structure which was built on top of the gravity anchor for the main cable. The three hollow sections inside the coupling structure comprise the connecting tunnel for the airport railway (centre) and the emergency carriage lanes (either side).

The main cable ascending from the cable chamber.

The main cable outside the cable chamber. The hexagonal object seen on the upper side of the cable is the hydraulic cable compacting clamp, the object on the lower side is the cable sorter. The 33,000 separate 5.38 mm galvanised steel wires are sub-divided into 80 strand groups before being tied onto the cable anchor.

Cable strands being tied onto the gravity anchor through adjustable tying bolts. The bolts are anchored to the gravity anchor which is made of mass concrete and weighs some 150,000 tonnes.

Close-up detail of the cable sorter.

A look at the finished cable chamber on the Tsing Yi bank.

External view of the cable chambers on the
Ma Wan side.

The catwalk suspended on the main cable, as seen from the underside. The steel deck of the bridge was still not erected at this stage.

Detail of the 4m-wide catwalk used to access the main cable.

The cast iron cable stay which holds the two pairs of hanging cables for the bridge deck in position. The steel ribbon tapes, located at 1.5 m intervals, are temporary ties for the compacted steel wires that form the main cable.

The final sealing of the main cable. A strong epoxy resin-based paint is used to seal the surface of the cable which is then wrapped with a skin of galvanised iron wire. The rectangular-shaped device is the equipment used to carry out the wire wrapping.

The main cable passing through the saddle on top of the bridge tower.

Close-up of the saddle which holds the turning cable in position. The saddle is made of cast iron and weighs about 500 tonnes.

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The Ma Wan Viaduct as seen from the Kap Shui Mun Bridge tower.

The work base for Ma Wan Viaduct on Ma Wan Island. The temporary linking bridge from Ma Wan to the island base of the Tsing Ma Bridge western tower can be seen in the centre of the photo.

Interchange at the Tsing Yi side. In the upper right corner is the expressway leading to the future Ting Kau Bridge which will link the Route 3 Country Park Section to Tsing Yi and Kwai Chung.

Close-up detail of the Interchange. The portal-braced bridge tower can be seen clearly here. The track of the Airport Railway is not visible in this photo as it runs in the lower deck section of Tsing Ma Bridge and, when arriving at the bank on Tsing Yi Island, heads underground.

The 250 m-long approach bridge supported on piers on the Tsing Yi bank, as viewed from the bridge tower.

The connecting section of the steel deck of the approach bridge linked to the coupling structure on the Tsing Yi bank. A derrick crane with a 200 tonne-capacity was positioned on the deck to assist with the lifting of the steel trusses.

Setting up of the derrick crane on the deck top of the approach bridge.

Joining of approach bridge to the Tsing Yi coupling structure.

Using SGB Alum form to construct the box section of the bridge coupling structure.

Detail of the complicated coupling structure which was built on top of the gravity anchor for the main cable. The three hollow sections inside the coupling structure comprise the connecting tunnel for the airport railway (centre) and the emergency carriage lanes (either side).

The main cable ascending from the cable chamber.

The main cable outside the cable chamber. The hexagonal object seen on the upper side of the cable is the hydraulic cable compacting clamp, the object on the lower side is the cable sorter. The 33,000 separate 5.38 mm galvanised steel wires are sub-divided into 80 strand groups before being tied onto the cable anchor.

Cable strands being tied onto the gravity anchor through adjustable tying bolts. The bolts are anchored to the gravity anchor which is made of mass concrete and weighs some 150,000 tonnes.

Close-up detail of the cable sorter.

A look at the finished cable chamber on the Tsing Yi bank.

External view of the cable chambers on the
Ma Wan side.

The catwalk suspended on the main cable, as seen from the underside. The steel deck of the bridge was still not erected at this stage.

Detail of the 4m-wide catwalk used to access the main cable.

The cast iron cable stay which holds the two pairs of hanging cables for the bridge deck in position. The steel ribbon tapes, located at 1.5 m intervals, are temporary ties for the compacted steel wires that form the main cable.

The final sealing of the main cable. A strong epoxy resin-based paint is used to seal the surface of the cable which is then wrapped with a skin of galvanised iron wire. The rectangular-shaped device is the equipment used to carry out the wire wrapping.

The main cable passing through the saddle on top of the bridge tower.

Close-up of the saddle which holds the turning cable in position. The saddle is made of cast iron and weighs about 500 tonnes.
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The hydraulic jack gantry for lifting the deck unit that works on the main cables.
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Close-up look at the gantry showing the two hydraulic jack units on one side with the lifting strands.
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Close-up look showing the mounting detail of the gantry. The gantry mounts and moves along the main cables by hydraulic clips. The cables in this case act as the rail for the gantry.
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The lifting arrangement as viewed from the bridge tower. The barge with two typical deck units on it was pulled by tug-boats in order to align it into the right posiiton for the final lifting. Rows of hangers from the main cable for hanging the deck units are already in place.
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Two typical deck units that weigh about 500 tonnes and measure 41 m x 18 m x 7.8 m; each were delivered to site from Dongguan by barge. The two pairs of lifting strands hanging down from the gantry were in position and ready for lifting.
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The lifting arrangement as viewed from the Ma Wan side. The end section of the deck can be seen clearly here.
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Positioning of the barge. Two pairs of attaching devices can be seen here on two ends of the deck for the coupling attachment of the lifting strands.
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The lifting arrangement as seen from the underside of the partly aligned deck units.
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The placing-in of a smaller deck unit that fills an odd gap between the standard decks. These kind of touching-up works are very common at the final stage of the erection.
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A 500 mm deviation in level between two deck units before final alignment and adjustment is made.
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The supporting detail of the deck to the portal frame of bridge tower. The decks in fact are not rigidly supported on the portal, the main cables supply the actual support. The set-up shows the jack blocks for adjusting the final alignment and level of the bridge deck.
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Interior view of the Tsing Ma Bridge. The location as seen here is the airport railway coming out from the reinforced concrete connecting tunnel into the approach bridge on Tsing Yi side.
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Workers prepare for the laying of the airport
railway track in the deck interior.
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The ties functioned also as the skylight of the airport railway as seen on the deck level. The opening provided by the skylight also acts as a pressure balance to minimise the wind effect during high wind.
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The deck of the Tsing Ma bridge is pin-jointed to the reinforced concrete structure of the Ma Wan viaduct at one end and rests on a sliding joint which also acts as the expansion joint at the other end of Tsing Yi. This is one of the pin-joints located on the Ma Wan side.
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The Bridge exterior with the stainless steel cladding cover on.
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The external look of the bridge deck before the cladding cover is fixed.
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Junction of two typical decks as seen from the underside of bridge. A mount-on sliding work platform can be seen here for doing the touch-up works on the bottom part of deck.
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Close-up look at the sliding work platforms that are mounted on the bottom of the deck by rail.
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The service access inside the approach bridge on Tsing Yi side. The engineering graded UPVC storm water drain can also be seen hanging on the underside of the deck.
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Catwalk over the servicing corridor and the multi-decked cable tray. The inner face of the stainless steel cladding cover can also be seen on the right.
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The cable tray that houses the control
and power cables inside the servicing
corridor on the sides of the deck interior.
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Ting Kau Bridge

18 Monday Apr 2011

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Ting Kau Bridge: is a 1,177-metre long cable-stayed bridge in Hong Kong that spans from the northwest of Tsing Yi Island and Tuen Mun Road. It is adjacent to Tsing Ma Bridge which also serves as major connector between the Hong Kong International Airport on Lantau Island and the rest of Hong Kong. It was completed in 1998. The bridge is toll-free.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bridge is part of Route 3, connecting North-west New Territories with Hong Kong Island. Other major infrastructures on the road includes Tai Lam Tunnel, Cheung Tsing Tunnel, Cheung Tsing Bridgeand Western Harbour Crossing. Compared to the nearby bridges on Lantau Link, Ting Kau Bridge is not just a landmark structure but also carries the heaviest traffic volume of the bridges, with many container trucks travelling to and from mainland China and the HK container port. A chromatic study and specially designed architectural lighting are intended to set the bridge off in its surroundings.

Ting Kau Bridge, Hong Kong.

Ting Kau Bridge is the world’s first major 4-span cable-stayed bridge. This meant that the central tower had to be stabilised longitudinally, the problem being solved using the longest (465 m) cable stays ever used in a bridge. The design of this bridge contains special features such as single leg towers, which are stabilised by transverse cables just like masts of a sailboat. The Ting Kau Bridge and approach viaducts link the western New Territories and the mainland to an expressway called Lantau Fixed Crossing, which connects the new Airport with Kowloon and Hong Kong. It meets the Lantau Fixed Crossing on Tsing Yi Island only 500 m from the Tsing Ma Bridge.

The Ting Kau Bridge and Approach Viaduct are 1,875 metres long while the triple tower bridge has an overall length of 1,177 metres. Three towers have been specially designed to withstand extreme windand typhoon conditions, with heights of 170 metres, 194 metres, and 158 metres, located on the Ting Kau headland, on a reclaimed island in Rambler Channel (which spans 900 metres wide) and on the north-west Tsing Yi shoreline respectively.

The arrangement of separate decks on both sides of the 3 towers contributes to the slender appearance of the bridge while acting favourably under heavy wind and typhoon loads. Each deck carries 3 traffic lanes and a hard shoulder.

At a design & construction cost of HK$1.94 billion, it is one of the longest cable-stayed bridges in the world. Along with the Tsing Ma and Kap Shui Mun bridges, it is closely monitored by the Wind and Structural Health Monitoring System (WASHMS).

Ting Kau Contractors Joint Venture designed and built Ting Kau Bridge between 1994 and 1998. The joint venture comprised lead partners Cubiertas Y Mzov (22%) and Entrecanales Y Tavora (22%), both of Spain (now both part of Acciona, S.A); Germany’s Ed. Züblin (22%); Australia’s Downer and Co (22%); and Hong Kong’s Paul Y (12%). Constructing engineers were Schlaich Bergermann & Partner

               

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