Royal opening of largest infrastructure project in Scotland for a
generation
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Jacobs
Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) and Arup
celebrate the official opening of the Queensferry Crossing by Her
Majesty The Queen. The Jacobs Arup Joint Venture (JV) has worked with
Transport Scotland since 2007 to develop and manage the Forth
Replacement Crossing project in the east of Scotland. The Scottish
Government investment of over £1.3 billion ($1.6 billion) comprises the
new Queensferry Crossing, the longest three-tower, cable-stayed bridge
in the world and 22 kilometers (13.7 miles) of major motorway upgrades
to the cross-Forth transport corridor.
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©Transport Scotland. The Queensferry Crossing bridge is the longest three tower cable-stay bridge in the world. (Photo: Business Wire)
The Jacobs Arup JV co-located with Transport Scotland as an integrated
Employer Delivery Team, initially in Transport Scotland’s office in
Glasgow in 2008, and onsite since 2011, to develop and manage the entire
project. As Transport Scotland’s lead consultant and delivery partner
for construction, the Jacobs Arup JV’s 1,400 global staff provided more
than 1.6 million work hours.
“Transport Scotland set out to dramatically enhance user experience and
improve accessibility in the region, and the Queensferry Crossing now
provides a sustainable and intelligent connection which future
generations can enjoy,” said Jacobs Buildings and Infrastructure Senior
Vice President Bob Duff. “The project has been a tremendous
collaboration of diverse talent and proficiency in an often challenging
environment. We’re impressed with the sheer effort of all involved to
deliver this world-class engineering structure.”
“The Queensferry Crossing has been designed to complement its unique
setting on the Firth of Forth,” explained Dr. Mike Glover OBE, Arup
Technical Director on the Queensferry Crossing project. “There is an
effortless elegance to the bridge’s distinctive overlapping cabling
system which disguises the amazing feat of engineering it represents.
The crossed cables create a structure of such strength that the towers
and deck are able to be as slim as feasible, producing a slender
silhouette.”
The integrated “managed crossing scheme,” pivotal to the project’s
viability and ultimate user experience, enables the Forth Road Bridge to
continue to be used as a public transport corridor. This, combined with
the innovative cable design and the implementation of Intelligent
Transport Systems (ITS), reduced the need for significant expansion of
the existing road network, allowing the overall scheme budget to be
reduced by over £2 billion ($2.5 billion). The Jacobs Arup JV also
provided guidance into the design of the bridge’s cable-stayed solution,
which allows individual strands within each cable to be replaced if
required without the need to close the Queensferry Crossing. Wind
shields and a structural health monitoring system have been implemented
to help enhance reliability.
The Jacobs Arup JV scope included scheme definition, sustainable bridge
strategy, highway and environmental design, statutory process,
procurement, project management and construction support. Staff skill
sets spanned traditional engineering, structural health monitoring,
environmental consulting, wind engineering, ship impact studies,
stakeholder engagement and BREEAM (Building Research Establishment
Environmental Assessment Method) building portfolio management, together
with road infrastructure design and ITS.
Jacobs is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of
full-spectrum technical, professional and construction services for
industrial, commercial and government organizations globally. The
company employs over 54,000 people and operates in more than 25
countries around the world. For more information, visit www.jacobs.com.
Arup is the creative force at the heart of many of the world’s most
prominent projects in the built environment and across industry. From 92
offices in 40 countries our 13,000 planners, designers, engineers and
consultants deliver innovative projects across the world with creativity
and passion. For more information, visit www.arup.com.
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Source: Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.