Lion Ocean Link
Chinese bridge with world record span
Together with the Chinese engineer HPDI, Dissing+Weitling's bridge team has won the task of designing Lion Ocean Link.
- Location
- China
- Category
- Road and Railway Bridges, and Tunnels
- Year
- 2020 - In Progress
- Client
- Guangdong Provincial Highway Construction Group Co., Ltd.
- Collaborator
- CCCC Highway Consultants Co., Ltd. (HPDI)
- Size
- 34 km
Lion Ocean Link has a total length of 34 kilometres, which includes a suspension bridge with a 'double-decker section' with 2 times 8 lanes.
The pylons are approximately 350 metres high and the bridge will get a world record span of approximately 2.180 metres.
The huge anchor blocks are carefully proportioned and
composed of simple geometric forms which clearly reveal their function.A fruitful co-lab
The Lion Ocean Link project is an outcome of Dissing+Weitling's fruitful and close collaboration with HPDI Guangzhou. The two partners are current working together on two other grand constructionens: Longmen Bridge and Huangmaohai Link.
Read about this collaborations and Dissing+Weitling's mobility work in the international magazine Bridge design & engineering, issue 11. May 2023.
Construction Work