The municipality of Rotterdam has found a fantastic place to build 525 homes, on the edge of the Zuiderpark, a stone’s throw from Ahoy. Living in green surroundings, with all urban conveniences within easy reach. Who wouldn’t want that? However, there was one problem: this so-called Carnisse Eiland is surrounded by ditches and ponds and can only be reached by a few authentic bridges, including the concrete bicycle bridge in the Carnissepad.

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Basically, it means that this makes the entire area inaccessible to heavy trucks, cranes and other construction traffic. So a solution had to be found. The collaborating Van Schie Group has now created a temporary bridge-over-bridge construction, a so-called “beam bridge” of the JSK-JBB type, built over the existing bicycle bridge in the Carnissepad.

HP Staal (part of the Van Schie Group) made the bridge piers, a structure consisting of steel hollow tubes with overlay beams. Janson Bridging, also part of the Van Schie Group, supplied the 27-meter-long steel bridge. In addition, Van Schie Kraanverhuur took care of the lifting and transport of the bridge sections. In short, a nice joint project with the aim of protecting the original bridge, so that construction traffic can now reach the building site without any problems and also to preserve the other bridges.

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