Samuel De Champlain Bridge
Extreme time pressure and smooth process
Excellent teamwork between architects and engineers made the design process fast and effective.
- Location
- Montreal
- Category
- Road and Railway Bridges, and Tunnels
- Year
- 2013 - 2019
- Client
- Infrastructure Canada
- Collaborators
- Arup Canada/ Provencher Roy/ Associates Architects/ HLB Lighting Design Inc
- Size
- 3.4 km
Spanning the St. Lawrence Seaway, which links marine traffic from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and connecting to three major highways, Autoroutes 10, 15, and 20, the Samuel De Champlain Bridge is one of the busiest corridors in Canada and is vital to both the local and national economy.
The bridge was built and will be operated for the next 30 years through a public-private partnership between the Government of Canada and Signature on the Saint Lawrence Group. Arup and Dissing+Weitling helped the Government of Canada achieve its objective of creating a world-class icon.
I et effektivt og tæt samarbejde med ingeniørerne hos Arup Canada har Dissing+Weitling skabt broen, der er udset til at blive et vartegn for Montreal.
Med den nye bro, som forbinder Montreal med South Shore, vil regionens infrastruktur blive markant fordret. Den 3,4 km lange bro får også en cykel- og gangbro, samt udsigtsplatforme både på og ved broen.
Broens design og dens fleksible korridor, der er adskilt fra den øvrige trafik, gør det muligt på sigt at udvide kapaciteten og integrere den kollektive transport såsom letbane og bus.
A bridge as intended
Architect and Director of Bridges Poul Ove Jensen says:
“In spite of an extreme time pressure the design process was unusually smooth, so it was possible to complete the tender design in about seven months. I am very happy that Canada decided to make the geometry of our design mandatory in the tender and that the bridge therefore stands exactly as intended. Now I just hope that this is the bridge the people of Montreal will call their own and be proud of.”
Udbudsprojektet havde fra starten stor politisk bevågenhed og en stram tidsplan på grund af den eksisterende Champlain-bros forfatning. På kun syv måneder formåede teamet at færdiggøre designet til den nye bro, takket være et tæt samarbejde mellem arkitekter, ingeniører og bygherre.