Beipanjiang Bridge wins international award
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Beipanjiang Bridge wins international award
Beipanjiang Bridge in Southwest China's Guizhou province has received the Award of Special Merit of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) during the FIDIC International Infrastructure Conference recently held in Mexico.
It's another international award for the bridge, after also winning the Gustav Lindenthal Medal in June 2018.
FIDIC is an international NGO dealing with consulting engineering, with a history of over 100 years. The selection process for the FIDIC Centenary Award began in 2013 to honor engineering projects that greatly contribute to social and economic development and is considered the Nobel Prize in the international bridge industry.
[Photo by Liu Yelin/for chinadaily.com.cn]
Located on the border of Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, Beipanjiang bridge is the world's highest bridge with a height of 565.4 meters above Beipanjiang Grand Valley.
As a section of an expressway linking Hangzhou in Zhejiang province and Ruili in Yunnan province, the bridge boasts a span of 720 meters, the second-largest in the world. It is also the world's first cable-stayed bridge with a main span of over 500 meters
Complicated geographical conditions made it difficult to build the bridge but led to several technological advancements during construction, including 11 patents.
Che Weiwei contributed to this story.
[Photo by Liu Yelin/for chinadaily.com.cn]
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