 The volume of traffic in Serbia’s capital Belgrade has increased sharply over recent years, bringing the arterial roads linking the city centre and the outlying districts close to the limits of their capacity. A ten-lane cable-stayed bridge over the Sava river will significantly ease this severe traffic congestion and lop a considerable margin off the journey time between the capital’s downtown and the New Belgrade district. Stretching a total of 929 metres in length, the new Sava Bridge is Belgrade’s biggest bridge-building project in more than 30 years and with its architecturally challenging suspension tower soaring 200 metres into the air it will also be a new landmark for the Serbian capital. Lead contractors Porr Technobau - SCT - DSD decided that the construction of the elegant suspension tower called for an all-inclusive automatic climbing formwork solution from Doka and have since reaped full benefit from their decision in the form of rapid progress on site. Even before the project had developed past the planning stage, close co-operation between construction management and the Doka specialists for automatic climbers had laid the groundwork for successful progress on this build. At 45 metres the bridge superstructure is extra-wide because it will carry ten lanes of traffic; it is being built by the incremental launching method, again using Doka formwork technology. |