Steel framework for the Aranguez Bridge

7 September 2010 - New contracts - Trinidad & Tobago

Five weeks ahead of schedule, on Saturday 19 June 2010, above the Churchill Roosevelt Highway, teams from VINCI Construction Grands Projets installed the steel framework for the Aranguez Bridge – a structure that will enable the last traffic lights to be removed, and traffic flow improved, between the capital, Port of Spain, and San Fernando. The operation involved settling this imposing, 240 t steel structure, 54 m in length, on four anti-seismic supports; it took less than four hours to complete. It will be recalled that the construction of the Aranguez Bridge is being undertaken on a design-build basis by VINCI Construction Grands Projets. RECo Canada and Soletanche Bachy Cimas, both Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiaries (VINCI Construction), are also participating in the project, responsible respectively for supplying and installing 912 sq. metres of Reinforced Earth® walls, and the creation of 10,752 lm of hollow auger bored piling.