The Térenez Bridge: taking shape

12 February 2010 - Projects update and handover - France

On Wednesday 13 January, the Térenez Bridge worksite moved into a new stage with the joining up of the deck at the left-bank end and the installation of the second anchorage box (a steel element within which the cables will be anchored) at the top of the right-bank tower.
Launched in April 2007, this project is being implemented by teams from Dodin Campenon Bernard, lead contractor, Sogea Bretagne, GTM Bretagne and Botte Fondations (all VINCI Construction France subsidiaries) — supported by VINCI Construction France’s structure design office —, and from Freyssinet and Terre Armee, subsidiaries of Soletanche Freyssinet (VINCI Construction), Eurovia’s Quimper office and the Engineering & Technical Resources division of VINCI Construction Grands Projets. This new bridge, in Brittany, will be the first curved cable-stayed bridge in France. 515 m in length, it will have a 285 m long central span supported by two 100 m high, lambda-shaped (λ) towers.
Costing €30m, the Térenez Bridge will link the Crozon peninsula with northern Finistère, and will replace the existing bridge, the structure of which is now in a very poor state.