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BRIDGE OVER “LE BRAS DE LA PLAINE”

REUNION (974)

Program

Construction of a 350-meter bridge

Client

Conseil Général de La Réunion

Cost

7.6 M€ excl. tax

Distinction

Outstanding Structure Award (IABSE)

With a total length of 350 meters, this structure, link between two banks, spans the Bras de la Plaine.
The main feature of the insertion is not to have a pier that goes down to the bottom of the gully, nor a pylon of a suspended structure that protrudes from the plateau.
The decks are therefore extremely thin concrete slats, composed with the lower hoarding and the lattice tubes. The silhouette of the decks is slender from each edge, which meet with precision, almost without touching.
The west abutment is recessed into the ground, the east abutment is raised, as if the material had been removed on one side and replaced on the other.