Mott Macdonald handling major Hong Kong project

Engineering firm Mott MacDonald has been commissioned to head the team designing the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge link road. The Dragages-China Harbour-VSL joint venture appointed Mott MacDonald as lead designer for the 9.4km long viaduct section of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. This US$1.66 (HK$12.9 billion) project is the largest single design and build contract ever awarded in Hong Kong. The bridge will carry a dual three-lane carriageway over the Pearl River Estuary, which is one of the world’s bu
July 24, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
Engineering firm 2579 Mott MacDonald has been commissioned to head the team designing the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge link road. The Dragages-China Harbour-VSL joint venture appointed Mott MacDonald as lead designer for the 9.4km long viaduct section of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. This US$1.66 (HK$12.9 billion) project is the largest single design and build contract ever awarded in Hong Kong. The bridge will carry a dual three-lane carriageway over the Pearl River Estuary, which is one of the world’s busiest shipping channels. The bridge will be constructed using the balanced cantilever method and will be formed from pre-stressed concrete box sections. Mott MacDonald is to design a substantial section of the viaduct, as well as being responsible overall for geotechnical, highways, electrical and mechanical, utilities, and other civil engineering services. Dr Mark Swales, Mott MacDonald’s transport division manager in Hong Kong said, “The project will enable us to showcase and draw upon our world-wide experience in the design of major bridges; it will be both challenging and rewarding for all.”

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Award winning bridge for North Carolina
    November 21, 2019
    A new bridge in the US state of North Carolina has won a key award for excellence – Mike Woof writes
    Read More
  • Sandvik on drill at the Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary project
    April 4, 2018
    The Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point project is creating a seventh land crossing, including highways and tunnels, between Shenzhen in China and Hong Kong There are already two control points on the eastern side of the New Territories between China and Hong Kong - at Man Kam To and Sha Tau Kok – to access eastern Shenzhen and Guangdong. All cross-boundary traffic travelling from these points must use busy local roads in Hong Kong and Shenzhen before joining the major highway systems. The US
    Read More
  • More on the Newmarket Viaduct replacement
    June 15, 2012
    When it was completed in 1965 – just six years after the Auckland Harbour Bridge – the six-lane Newmarket Viaduct with its tall, slender piers was something of an engineering wonder, the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Forty years on it had become a much-maligned contributor to Auckland’s chronic traffic congestion, too weak seismically to withstand the heaviest loaded trucks let alone a severe earthquake, so narrow in the shoulders that any accident stopped traffic flow and made it difficult
    Read More
  • East End Crossing Project—Availability payment P3 in action
    July 14, 2017
    Indiana exercised its authority to use a P3 contract when it partnered with Kentucky for new bridges across the Ohio River. Barney Allison and John Smolen* explain the groundbreaking availability payment deal. Earlier this year, traffic began rolling over the new tolled Lewis and Clark Bridge spanning the Ohio River from northern Kentucky to southern Indiana. The cable-stayed bridge is part of the award-winning Ohio Bridges Project to untangle traffic within the greater metropolitan area of Louisville, Kent
    Read More

Highlighted Content