Isthmus Viaduct. Cuenca. Spain. 2009.


CFC Scope
Project


Project Manager
Javier Manterola Armisén


Project Manager
Antonio Martínez Cutillas


Construction end date
2009


Typology
Beam Bridges


Material
Concrete

This viaduct is situated on the high-speed railway line between Madrid and Valencia. It passes by the Contreras Reservoir and has an 830 m total length. Given that the piers rest on the edges of the reservoir and reach as deep as 15 m into the reservoir bed, the bridge was initially designed to have a 90 m long span and we planned to build it using the construction procedure of incremental launching. Istmo-2 However, due to a variety of reasons the viaduct was finally built with a 66 m long span, using prestressed concrete box girder sections. It was built with the help of a large movable scaffolding truss (MSS).