Project Description:

The Huajiang Gorge Bridge is the world's highest (625m) and the longest-span (1420m) bridge in mountainous areas. Through innovative and sustainable bridge-tourism initiatives, outstanding structure, and elegant solutions, it brings great development benefits to the local ethnic minority region and community, serving as a global model of bridge-tourism integration.

Judges Comments

The Huajiang Gorge Bridge stands in challenging and inaccessible mountainous regions over a deep gorge. The long span suspension bridge required innovative construction planning to enable deck erection, which was achieved through the use of a very long overhead cable crane, rotating the heavy truss girder segments through 90 degrees so that they could be delivered along the already completed deck.

Structural Designer

Guizhou Communications Investment Group Co., Ltd.

Location

Guizhou, China