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title: New award for the Samuel-De Champlain Bridge
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# New award for the Samuel-De Champlain Bridge

![New award for the Samuel-De Champlain Bridge](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/pont.jpg)

![sncf-lavalin-3-1](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/sncf-lavalin-3-1-300x225.jpg)

The International Road Federation (IRF Global\*), gave this bridge the
Achievement Award in the Quality Management category.

This prize, one of the most prestigious attributed in the roads sector, rewards
the excellence of the bridge’s design, and especially the implementation of a
quality management system throughout the design and construction phases.

The prize was given to the Design Joint Venture of engineering firms who
designed the bridge: SNC-Lavalin, T.Y. Lin International and SYSTRA
International Bridge Technologies.

### The reward for a bridge designed to last

Built to last 125 years, the Samuel-De Champlain Bridge was designed for
multimodality with four road lanes, two dedicated to buses and bicycles, but
also a dedicated rail track and pedestrian pathways.

This longevity is guaranteed thanks to the technical solutions employed to
withstand all weather conditions:

- high performance concrete was used to resist salt, abrasions, and temperature
  variations
- stainless steel frame
- the asphalt is 90mm thick, 30mm thicker than the usual

![credit-arup-pont-samuel-de-champlain-1](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/credit-arup-pont-samuel-de-champlain-1-300x169.jpg)

_The Samuel-De Champlain Bridge next to the old structure it will replace on the right_

![](https://www.systra.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/ballade-a-velo-sur-la-piste-multifonctionnelle-du-nouveau-pont-champlain-02-1-300x200.jpg)

_The cycle path separated from the traffic_

### This new award is in addition to the previous ones obtained for this bridge:

- The **Honor Award **presented by the California branch of ACEC, the American
  Council of Engineering Companies
- The **Honor Award** from IABSE, the International Association for Bridge and
  Structural Engineering
- The **International Transportation Structure Award** from the American
  Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI)
- The **Schreyer Award**, presented at the Canadian Consulting Engineering
  Awards

### Samuel-De Champlain: a record-breaking project

Designed, built and completed in just 48 months, thanks to the massive use of
high-performance steel and concrete elements, the Samuel-De Champlain Bridge
welcomes some 50 million cars, buses and trucks every year, making it one of the
busiest bridges in North America, almost three years after its inauguration.

It is one of the widest bridges in the world, with a total deck length of 50
metres, linking Montreal to Brossard, crossing the St. Lawrence River over a
length of 3.4km. The latest news is the arrival of the metro on its central deck
arrivée du métro sur son tablier central: the automatic REM du Sud line links
will link Brossard to Montreal’s Central Station by crossing the bridge in
spring 2023.

[LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE](https://www.systra.com/en/type-market/large-infrastructure/)

\*IRF Global: an NGO founded in 1948 in Washington with the aim of promoting the
development of road networks.

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