Jamuna Bridge, Tangail, Bangladesh

  Client: Jamuna Multi-purpose Bridge Authority
 

Contractor:

Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd

  Value: US$ 247m
  Date: 1994 - 1997
 

A World Bank Organisation funded project to provide a road and rail link along the Sirajganj corridor over the Jamuna River.

The gantry design won TGP a British Design Council Millennium Products Award for innovation for this multispan bridge (4.8km long, 100m spans) with a pre-stressed concrete box girder superstructure, built in balanced cantilever, supported on raked steel piles up to 90m long.

TGP also carried out the design of the bridge deck unit casting cells and other principal items of temporary works used in the deck construction.

Award

  • British Design Council 1998

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