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Line of Business
Transportation - Bridges, Flyovers, Viaducts, Elevated Corridors
Railway Bridge across Thane Creek
| Client | : | Metropolitan Transport Project (Railways) Bombay. |
| Consultant |
: | Tebebau GmbH , Germany |
| Year of Completion | : | 1991 |
| Location | : | Thane, Maharashtra, India |
| Project Brief | |
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Construction of 1.87 km long railway bridge links Bombay to New Bombay. |
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Total length of the bridge - 1.8725 km No of spans - 35 Length of Span - 53.5 m Type of superstructure - Precast Prestressed concrete box girders Size of each box girder - 53.4 m length 5.7 m width at top and 2.8 m at bottom. 3.65 m depth Weight of each girder - 800 t Method of launching the girder - The precast girders are launched during high tide with the help of specially fabricated catamaran. Prestressing system adopted for stressing of girder - Tenssaccia |
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This Project was awarded the FIRST prize in the competition for Most Outstanding concrete structure in India 1991 by Maharashtra Indian Chamber of American Concrete Institute |