Consortia line up for Denmark’s Storstrom Bridge project

Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai, Acciona, Ed Züblin, MT Højgaard and Per Aarsleff are among the bidders to build a bridge connecting the Danish islands of Zealand and Falstser. The Danish Road Directorate expects to choose five pre-qualified consortia for the Storstrom Bridge project in May and the bids for the project are scheduled to be submitted by April 2016. The new bridge, likely to cost around €565 million including the cost of demolishing the old bridge it will replace, is expected to open by 2021, a
February 12, 2015 Read time: 3 mins

Samsung, 3086 Daewoo, 236 Hyundai, 976 Acciona, Ed Züblin, MT Højgaard and Per Aarsleff are among the bidders to build a bridge connecting the Danish islands of Zealand and Falstser.

The 2284 Danish Road Directorate expects to choose five pre-qualified consortia for the Storstrom Bridge project in May and the bids for the project are scheduled to be submitted by April 2016.

The new bridge, likely to cost around €565 million including the cost of demolishing the old bridge it will replace, is expected to open by 2021, according to a report in the Danish business newspaper Berlingske.

Storstrom Bridge, along with its sister bridge the Kalvø Strøm, were opened in 1985 to ease traffic on an even older Storstrøm Bridge, a 3.2km road and rail arched crossing built in 1937. The newer Storstrom Bridge and Kalvo Strom Bridge are together known as the Faro Bridges because they touch down on the small island of Faro between Zealand and Falstser islands.

The newer high (south) Storstrom bridge is a 1.8km cable-stayed structures across the Storstrømmen straight between Falster and %$Linker: 2 External <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary /> 0 0 0 oLinkExternal Far&#248; Farø Wikipedia false http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far%C3%B8 false false%> islands. The longest span is nearly 300m and the maximum clearance to the sea is 26m. There is only one row of suspension cables, along the centre of the roadway.

The low (north) Kalvø Strøm bridge is a 1.6km bean structure crossing Kalvø Strøm straight between Farø and Zealand islands. The longest span is 40m and the maximum clearance to the sea is 20m.

When the new Storstrom Bridge was announced in mid-November 2012, the 1035 Danish Government was keen finance the project from unused funds destined for the country’s railway network. However, a number of opposition parties wanted to finance the bridge with revenue from the planned Fehmarn Belt link between Denmark and Germany, which is only now starting to be built, as World Highways reported in January.

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